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Dates Quiz 9/30 – Peer Blog Responses Due 10/1 – October Blog Questions Posted 10/4 (per 3) or 10/5 (per 2) : Chapter 8

Reading Quiz

Is a revolution justified or is it treason?

Why would someone choose not to be a part of their government?› How would they go about leaving?› What are the pros and cons?

What were the similarities and differences between the colonists and their English counterparts?

Was England’s mercantilist policies a help or hindrance to the American colonies?

Very little hierarchy Property ownership Political

participation

Social Status Supreme

Property limited to the wealthy

Parliament and King controlled affairs

Why was there such a difference?

Distance weakened authority Republicanism developed

› citizens give up self interests for the common good.

› Opposed to hierarchical and authoritarian institutions

Common culture (although quickly changing)

Radical Whigs in England› Made attacks on use of patronage and

bribes by king’s ministers› Warned citizens to be on guard for possible

corruption.

Money is Power! Expand Empire!

How did England gain their money?

Mercantilism – wealth is power Measured by silver and gold Must export more than import

Navigation law of 1650 All goods must be transported on British ships Enumerated articles could be exported only to

England Currency shortage

Colonists bought more than they sold to Britain Barter and trade Paper money – led to depreciation

How did mercantilist restrictions hamper the development of Virginia?

What British restrictions are viewed as most galling? Why were they tolerated as long as they were?

What were the pros and cons of Britain’s mercantilist policies?

Britain felt colonists responsible for war debt

Navigation Laws (1763)› British trade only

Sugar Act of 1764› Molasses Act 1733› 3 pence tax on sugar and molasses

Quartering Act of 1765› Required colonies to provide food and

housing to British troops

George Greenville: Author of the Stamp Act

King George III

legal documents, permits, commercial contracts, newspapers, wills, pamphlets, and playing cards in the colonies required to carry a tax stamp.

“No taxation, without representation!”

9 colonies met in NYC 14 point declaration of rights and

grievances formulated by John Dickinson

Pledged loyalty to the king

Publications Andrew Oliver and Hutchinson effigies

hung Destroyed property of tax collectors No one to enforce it, when it became

law Government offices shut down Boycott on British Goods

Existed in every colony› Samuel Adams: head of Boston Chapter

Mainly workers and tradesmen Boston Gazette spread news and

opinion Main objective to get stamp collectors

to resign Enforcement of Non-Importation

agreements

Organizer of the Committees of Correspondence› Movement toward independence

Led the reaction to the Stamp Act and Boston Tea Party

Served in both Continental Congresses› Too much of an agitator to be a good

politician“Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.” Samuel Adams (1776)

Repealed the Stamp Act in 1766 Passed the Declaratory Act in 1766

› Stated Parliament had the right to make all laws for the colonies

› Predecessor for future acts

“By one Act they have suspended the powers of one American legislature, & by another have declared they may legislate for us themselves in all cases whatsoever.  These two acts alone form a basis broad enough whereon to erect a despotism of unlimited extent.” Thomas Jefferson

Sponsored by Charles Townshend Purpose to raise revenues for customs

enforcement and colonial officers Import duties on glass, lead, paint,

paper, and tea. Protested with petitions, boycotting,

and tar and feathering All but tea tax repealed in 1770

9/30 – Peer Blog Responses Due 10/1 – October Blog Questions Posted 10/4 (per 3) or 10/5 (per 2) - Chapter 8

Reading Quiz 10/6 – 1776 Questions Due 10/11 – Unit 1 Test (Chapters 1-8);

Notes Due for Chapters 7 and 8

Started because of the failure to pay taxes

Townspeople threw snowballs A struck private fired into the crowd 11 injured and 5 killed British removed from Boston Crispus Attucks

Monopoly given to failing EIC Ships not able to enter the bay, most

turned away Hutchinson would not allow ship to

leave Boston until unloaded Sons of Liberty, dressed as Indians, led

attack on ship, dumping 45 tons of tea

Prime Minister Lord North, author of the Boston Port Bill, forces the ”Intolerable Acts,” or tea, down the throat of America, a vulnerable Indian woman whose arms are restrained by Lord Chief Justice Mansfield, while Lord Sandwich, a notorious womanizer, pins down her feet and peers up her skirt. Behind them, Mother Britannia weeps helplessly. This British cartoon was quickly copied and distributed by Paul Revere

Boston Port Act – closed Boston Harbor until dumped tea was paid for

Massachusetts Government Act – revoked charter and forbid town meetings

Quartering Act – required colonists to provide housing for soldiers

Quebec Act – expanded territory › No representative government› Restored French law› Allowed practice of Catholicism

First Continental Congress in 1774› Declaration of Rights› Only Georgia missing› Creation of the Association: complete non-

importation and non-consumption› Violent to resisters

First military engagement (April 19th,1775) British given orders to capture and destroy

supplies Wanted to capture Sam Adams and

Hancock Stocks and men both moved location 700 British led by Thomas Gage defeated

75 minutemen at Lexington and forced them to Concord

Minutemen were warned and defeated Redcoats at Concord and forced them back to Boston