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1. What challenges did Great Britain face with management of her empire after 1763?
2. What was the Proclamation of 1763, and why did King George issue it?
3. Why did colonists object so strenuously to the Stamp Act?
4. How did the Stamp Act Crisis serve as a model of resistance?
5. How did Britain respond to colonial unrest in the wake of the Townshend Acts, and what were the consqeuences of their actions?
6. What was the Gaspee Affair and how did it affect colonial resistance?
7. What were colonial objections to the Tea Act?
8. What were the Coercive Acts, and how did they lead to the First Continental Congress?
9. What actions were taken by the First Continental Congress?
10. What led to Lexington and Concord?
11. How did the Second Continental Congress respond to events in Massachusetts?
12. How did the publication of Common Sense change the course of events in the colonies after the king "declared war" against the colonies?
13. What was the reasoning for independence as laid out in the Declaration of Independence?
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