6. Show how England renewed her policy of regulation in 1767. 7. Summarize the events connected with American resistance. 8. With what measures did Great Britain retaliate? 9. Contrast "constitutional" with "natural" rights. 10. What solution did Burke offer? Why was it rejected? =Research Topics= =Powers Conferred on Revenue Officers by Writs of Assistance.=--See a writ in Macdonald, _Source Book_, p. 109. =The Acts of Parliament Respecting America.=--Macdonald, pp. 117-146. Assign one to each student for report and comment. =Source Studies on the Stamp Act.=--Hart, _American History Told by Contemporaries_, Vol. II, pp. 394-412. =Source Studies of the Townshend Acts.=--Hart, Vol. II, pp. 413-433. =American Principles.=--Prepare a table of them from the Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress and the Massachusetts Circular. Macdonald, pp. 136-146. =An English Historian's View of the Period.=--Green, _Short History of England_, Chap. X. =English Policy Not Injurious to America.=--Callender, _Economic History_, pp. 85-121. =A Review of English Policy.=--Woodrow Wilson, _History of the American People_, Vol. II, pp. 129-170. =The Opening of the Revolution.=--Elson, _History of the United States_, pp. 220-235. CHAPTER VI THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION RESISTANCE AND RETALIATION =The Continental Congress.=--When the news of the "intolerable acts" reached America, every one knew what strong medicine Parliament was prepared to administer to all those who resisted its authority. The cause of Massachusetts became the cause of all the colonies. Opposition to British policy, hitherto local and spasmodic, now took on a national character. To local committees and provincial conventions was added a Continental Congress, appropriately called by Massachusetts on June 17, 1774, at the instigation of Samuel Adams. The response to the summons was electric. By hurried and irregular methods delegates were elected during the summer, and on September 5 the Congress duly assembled in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia. Many of the greatest men in America were there--George Washington and Patrick Henry from Virginia and John and Samuel Adams from Massachusetts. Every shade of opinion was represented. Some were impatient with mild devices; the majority favored moderation. The Congress drew up a declaration of American rights and stated in clear and dignified language the grievances of the colonists. It approved the resistance to British measures offered by Massachusetts and promised the united support of all sections. It prepared an address to King George and another to the people of England, disavowing the idea of independence but firmly attacking the policies pursued by the British government.