I.B.8.1

Describe, evaluate and interpret the economic and political reasons for the American revolution, to include:<ol type="a"><li>attempts to regulate colonial trade through passage of Tea Act, Stamp Act and Intolerable Acts; colonists' reaction to British policy (e.g., boycotts, the sons of liberty, petitions, appeals to parliament)</li><li>the ideas expressed in the declaration of independence, including the preamble</li></ol>