| A | B |
|---|
| The need to undercut dominant Dutch shippers and codify a mercantilist policy | The English begin passing the Navigation Acts in the 1650s |
| Fierce competition with colonial rivals and a belief there is only so much wealth in the world | European powers pursued mercantilist policies and sought to acquire overseas colonies |
| Britain's mercantilist policies | Benefited England's mother country economy but stifled colonial development/diversification but did provide protection and guaranteed markets |
| Britain's policy of salutary neglect from the 1680s to 1763 | The colonies were able to develop some economic self-sufficiency due to lax enforcement of British policy |
| The French and Indian War ending the Treaty of Paris | Britain was finally in control of North America but must find a way to deal with a mounting debt by raising taxes |
| The Wealth of Nations (1776) by Adam Smith | Provided the Founding Fathers with a well-crafted argument against mercantilism and for free trade/laissez-faire economics |
| Pontiac's Rebellion and a British desire to prevent costly Indian wars and control a colonial population that was pushing westward | The Proclamation of 1763 |
| The Proclamation of 1763 | Infuriated colonists, especially land speculators, and was largely ignored |
| Britain wanting to cut costs in stationing troops in North America | The Quartering Act of 1765 |
| Quartering Act | Ratification of the Third Amendment |
| The British idea of virtual representation vs. the colonial idea of actual representation | Parliament and the colonies do not fundamentally understand each other's position in the taxation/representation disputes of the 1760s/1770s |
| Distance from Britain, lack of a monarchy and a home-grown hereditary aristocracy | The colonists having a strong affinity to a republican form of government |
| Britain's use of writs of assistance, admiralty courts, the royal veto, and increasing numbers of British troops stationed in North America | The colonists increasingly believe the British are tyrannical and have bad intentions |
| The Stamp Act | Colonial-wide nonimportation agreement, establishment of the Sons/Daughters of Liberty, and the Stamp Act Congress |
| Effective colonial opposition to the Stamp Act | Repeal of the Stamp Act and passage of the Declaratory Act |
| Britain still needing to raise revenue but avoid the backlash of having such a visible tax as the Stamp Act | The Townshend Duties |
| Increasing tensions between local citizens and British soldiers in Boston | The Boston Massacre |
| The Enlightenment | Provided the intellectual inspiration for the Founding Fathers and the Revolution, and emphasized reason over emotion |
| The Committees of Correspondence | Established a colonial-wide network to publicize grievances and disseminate propaganda |
| The bankruptcy of the British East India Company | The Tea Act |
| Anger at the crackdown of smuggling and the Tea Act | The Boston Tea Party |
| The Intolerable Acts | Creation of the Association and the First Continental Congress |
| The Quebec Act | Angered the colonists by promoting Catholicism, denying trial by jury, and expanding a former French province into the Ohio Valley |
| British mission to capture Sam Adams and John Hancock, and seize an arsenal outside of Boston | Battles of Lexington and Concord |
| Lexington and Concord | "The shot heard around the world" that started the American Revolution |
