Chapter+7+Reading+Objectives

Students who understand Chapter 7 in __American Pageant__ (along with the portion of Chapter 8 that I have assigned) will be able to:
 * __Reading Part I__**
 * Explain the ideas of republicanism and radical Whiggery that Britain's American colonists had adopted by the eighteenth century
 * Define mercantilism and why Americans resented it
 * Explain why Britain enforced higher taxation and more political control after 1763 and why this angered the colonists
 * Describe the first acts passed on the colonists and why these taxes, except for the one on tea, were repealed by 1770
 * Explain how the Tea Act led to the Boston Tea Party, the Intolerable Acts, and ultimately, war


 * __Other Concepts__**
 * Admirality courts
 * Stamp Act Congress
 * Nonimportation Agreements
 * Boston Massacre (actual events and how they were portrayed)
 * First Continental Congress
 * Lexington and Concord


 * __Reading Part II__**
 * Explain how American colonists could continue to proclaim their loyalty to the British crown even while they engaged in major military hostilities with Britain after 1775
 * Explain the role of //Common Sense,// by Thomas Paine, in inspiring many Americans to declare their independence in the summer of 1776
 * Explain both the specific political grievances and the universal ideals and principles that Jefferson's Declaration of Independence used to justify America's separation from Britain


 * __Other Concepts__**
 * Strengths and weaknesses of both sides heading into the war
 * The role of the Second Continental Congress
 * Olive Branch Petition
 * The plight of loyalists