REPERCUSSIONS & REACTIONS OBJ: HOW DO EVENTS AFTER TREATY OF PARIS LEAD COLONISTS TO REVOLUTION? BRITISH TROOPS IN WEST & COLONIES & NATIVES SUSPECT COLONIAL SETTLEMENTS CONTINUED NATIVES PREFERRED ‘DEVIL THEY KNEW’, I.E. FRENCH THAN ENGLISH PONTIAC LEADER ENCOURAGED REVOLT 2K+ COLONISTS CAPTURED ALONG W/ FORTS BRITISH ULTIMATELY SUCCESSFUL AFTER 2 YEARS REALIZATION THAT COLONIAL ADMIN IS COSTLY MAINTAIN PEACE IMPERATIVE SO.. PROCLOMATION LINE 1763

PROCLAMATION LINE 1763 FRENCH & INDIAN WAR FOUGHT FOR RIGHT TO SETTLE WESTERN LANDS PONTIAC’S REBELLION NATIVES MUST UNITE FOR SELF DEFENSE NO SETTLEMENT WEST OF OHIO COLONISTS & LAND SPECULATOR COMPANIES ENRAGED AT POLICY ISSUE FAR FROM SETTLED

COLONIAL DISSATISFACTION LAND STRUGGLES IN EAST TOO IMPACT OF MERCANTILISM DEBT ROSE IN COLONIES, PRICES FALLING LED TO REBELLION PAXTON BOYS: SCOTS-IRISH IN PA SIMILAR TO BACON NORTH CAROLINA REGULATORS TOBACCO PRICES FELL, DEBTS UNPAID, LAND SIEZED WANT REPRESENTATION IN ASSEMBLY – NOPE GOV.CALLED IN BR. TROOPS 1771 30 DEAD, 7 REGULATORS EXECUTED BRITISH POLICIES IMPACTING COLONIES MORE & MORE

CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS WHAT WAS AT THE HEART OF THE BREAK UP? BRITISH VIEW AMERICAN VIEW PARLIAMENT SOVEREIGN COLONIES PART OF EMPIRE VIRTUAL REPRESENTATION UNWRITTEN CONSTITUTION NO NEED TO QUESTION HISTORY SHARED POWER COLONIAL POLITICAL CULTURE ACTUAL REPRESENTATION WRITTEN CONSTITUTIONS EMBRACED LOCKE’S IDEAS

CHANGED POLICIES IN ENGLAND TO ADDRESS COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION & DEBT END OF SALUTARY NEGLECT NEED FOR REVENUE- COLONIES MUST PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE G. GRENVILLE P.M. 1763 SUGAR ACT 1764 – NOT A HARDSHIP BUT…IMPOSED ON COLONIAL RIGHTS DOUBLED DOWN ON ENFORCEMENT OF NAVIGATION ACTS JAMES OTIS ‘NO TAXES UNLESS HE CONSENTS IN PERSON OR BY HIS REPRESENTATIVES’ – ENG. CONST. VIOLATED WRITS OF ASSISTANCE FURTHER ANGERED COLONISTS – ENTER SHIP OR BUILDING W/O WARRANT

GRENVILLE IGNORED PARLIAMENT QUARTERING ACT 1765: HOUSE BRITISH TROOPS & FEED THEM STAMP ACT 1765: “TO DEFRAY EXPENSE OF PROTECTING, DEFENDING & SECURING COLONIES” ALL PAPER ITEMS: MARRIAGE CERTS, DEEDS, NEWSPAPER, CARDS ETC. IMMEDIATE PUSHBACK BARELY A FARTHING COLLECTED VIRGINIA RESOLUTIONS, P. HENRY MASS CALLS FOR STAMP ACT CONGRESS SONS OF LIBERTY FROM ARGUMENT AMONG ELITE TO THE POPULOUS

STAMP TAX CONGRESS & RESPONSE REPS FROM 9 COLONIES IN NY REFUSED TO USE STAMPS NON-IMPORTATION COLONIAL MANUFACTURING BOYCOTT: ROLE OF COLONIAL WOMEN, SAVE YOUR MONEY, SAVE YOUR COUNTRY PRESSURE IN ENGLAND REPEALED DUE TO PRESSURE FROM MERCHANTS, PARLIAMENT BUT, DECLARATORY ACT: PARLIAMENT STILL SUPREME STILL NEED MONEY SO MORE TAXES

NOW WHAT? TOWNSHEND RESPONDS TOWNSHEND ACTS – MORE TAXES LEAD, PAINTS, GLASS, TEA ETC NEW BOYCOTT, 2 YEARS IMPORTS DOWN BY ½ MASS. GENERAL COURT “CIRCULAR LETTER” TO COLONIAL LEGISLATURES: SAM ADAMS, MORE RADICAL NO TAXATION W/O REPRESENT-ATION, NATURAL RIGHTS VIOLATED PARLIAMENT ‘RESCIND LETTER’ BOSTON: ‘NEVER’ G.C. SHUT DOWN, MOBS ATTACK CUSTOMS OFFICIALS, BRITISH TROOPS TO BOSTON 1768

AND THEN CALMER HEADS PREVAIL (?) J. DICKINSON “LETTER FROM A PENNSYLVANIA FARMER” MORE CONSERVATIVE RESPONSE TO TAXATION POLICIES PARLIAMENT SUPREME BUT ACTED BADLY, WE’RE STILL CHILDREN SO SHOULD OBEY TAXES TO REGULATE OK BUT NO RIGHT TO TAX FOR REVENUE W/O REPRESENTATION COULD COLONISTS BE SEEING BENEFIT TO UNITY? A COMMON IDENTITY EMERGE? AT LEAST ON SOME LEVEL?

BOSTON MASSACRE MARCH 5, 1770 ROLE OF MEDIA GOT VIRGINIA RESOLVES WRONG BUT PEOPLE RAN WITH IT MASSACRE? REALLY? MANY FEARFUL OF MOB VIOLENCE BUT ENCOURAGED BY ELITE NONETHELESS SOLDIERS FAIR TRIAL, ALL TOWNSHEN DUTIES REPEALLED EXCEPT TEA, FOR PRINCIPLE AND THEN NOTHING FOR 3 YEARS

IN OTHER IMPERIAL NEWS…. BRITISH EAST INDIA CO. NEARLY BANKRUPT P.M LORD NORTH OFFERS SOLUTION EVERYONE WINS IN THIS SCENARIO – OR SO HE THOUGHT HELP BRITISH EAST INDIA CO. MAKE MONEY & SELL RICH, BLACK, COVETED TEA CHEAP TO THE COLONISTS