Chapter 5: Choosing Loyalties, 1763-1776

After reading this chapter, you should be able to do the following:

1. Explain how and why George Grenville expected the American colonists to help England in paying for the costs of the British Empire, and how the colonists reacted.
   
   
2. Describe Charles Townshend’s provisions for raising revenues in the colonies, why he thought that his plan would succeed where Grenville’s had failed, and how the colonists responded.
   
   
3. Analyze how British choices added to Americans’ suspicions of England, and how they responded to increased efforts to crush resistance in the colonies.
   
   
4. Argue whether the Revolutionary War could have been avoided or whether it was an inevitable conflict once the colonists met in the First and Second Continental Congresses.