Study Questions
1. What were Jonathan Boucher’s main criticisms of America in his early years as a colonist? What did he like about America?
2. In what ways did Boucher contribute to colonial society and education while he was in America?
3. Like the Patriots, Jonathan Boucher opposed the Stamp Act—why?
4. What was Boucher’s position on the questions of bishops and clerical salaries? How did his thinking on these issues influence his relationship to the Revolutionary movement?
5. Why did Jonathan Boucher leave America? How did other people treat him in his final months in the colonies?
6. What was the Lockean view of government? In what ways did Boucher support it? What was the philosophical basis of his opposition to the Revolution?
7. What did Jonathan Boucher mean when he argued that liberty is merely a “phantom”—a “magical and misleading word”?
8. Were the Patriots justified in driving Jonathan Boucher into exile? Should they have allowed Tories the same liberty they demanded for themselves?
1. What were Jonathan Boucher’s main criticisms of America in his early years as a colonist? What did he like about America?
2. In what ways did Boucher contribute to colonial society and education while he was in America?
3. Like the Patriots, Jonathan Boucher opposed the Stamp Act—why?
4. What was Boucher’s position on the questions of bishops and clerical salaries? How did his thinking on these issues influence his relationship to the Revolutionary movement?
5. Why did Jonathan Boucher leave America? How did other people treat him in his final months in the colonies?
6. What was the Lockean view of government? In what ways did Boucher support it? What was the philosophical basis of his opposition to the Revolution?
7. What did Jonathan Boucher mean when he argued that liberty is merely a “phantom”—a “magical and misleading word”?
8. Were the Patriots justified in driving Jonathan Boucher into exile? Should they have allowed Tories the same liberty they demanded for themselves?