US History: Chapter 3, Exercise 3 — Possible Solution ====================================================================== THE PATTERN The Stamp Act was repealed under pressure and immediately followed by the Declaratory Act asserting full authority. The Coercive Acts, meant to end self-government in Massachusetts, are said to have increased support for revolution instead. WHAT WOULD BE NEEDED More cases across the same period, contemporary evidence of colonial opinion shifting because of each act specifically, and a source that states the pattern rather than two separate summaries that merely resemble each other.