U.S. History 201Chapter 4
Dr. J. SgarlataNotes

The Empire in Transition

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For each of the chapter themes below, list what the author provides as evidence to support it.

How colonists who had enjoyed considerable freedom within the British Empire came to regard themselves as slaves of that empire.

Why, after a considerable period of laxness, England made sharp policy changes designed to significantly increase its control over the colonial economy.

How colonists who had generally prospered within the British Empire rose up in rebellion against that empire.