Today you need: Spiral Pen/Pencil Pick up Acts Chart from front table Test Grades posted Absent yesterday? Need to take test – see whiteboard Today you need: Spiral Pen/Pencil Pick up Acts Chart from front table Tape your chart in your spiral – leaving the top white space blank

Why would this Proclamation lead to anger? 1763 Proclamation of 1763 issued To keep peace with Natives Colonists can’t move past Appalachian Mountains. Proclamation leads to anger Why would this Proclamation lead to anger? Who issued the Proclamation? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKNTBHmWOyA

First set of “ACTS” were over a period of 100 years. . . .

The Colonies exist to benefit the “Mother Country” Navigation Acts 1650s-1750s Navigation Acts Colonists could only trade with Britain (mercantilism) Smuggling to avoid paying the taxes The Colonies exist to benefit the “Mother Country”

Colonists considered this Act tyranny Unjust use of power 1764 Sugar Act Taxed sugar and molasses Anger, protests - “Taxation w/o representation” Why would the Sugar Act cause anger? What was Taxation without Representation? Colonists considered this Act tyranny Unjust use of power https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_3717240465&feature=iv&src_vid=Wj58G0iCoac&v=kxdHoyHpVRI

Quartering Act To “Quarter = to house”

Why would this cause anger among the colonists? 1765 Quartering Act Colonists required to house and supply British soldiers Anger Why would this cause anger among the colonists?

1765 Stamp Act passed (repealed 1766) Taxed all legal documents such as diplomas, contracts and wills Documents had to carry a stamp showing that the tax had been paid Boycott of British goods; Protests, Burning effigies

Sam Adams Adams was a driving force behind the protests. He was a member of the Sons of Liberty who started the Committee of Correspondence to stir public support for American independence.

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1766 Declaratory Act passed Declared Parliament’s supreme authority to govern/tax the colonies Power struggle with Parliament

1767 Townshend Acts passed (repealed 1770) Taxed glass, paint, paper, tea and lead. New boycotts; “Natural Rights” (John Locke) threatened

Protests immediately broke out at news of the Townshend Acts Went against “natural rights” (JOHN LOCKE) “No one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions”

Boston Massacre - 1770 Boston Massacre Deadly riot caused the death of 5 colonists. Paul Revere creates an engraving as anti-British propaganda Anger spreads throughout the colonies through newspapers

1773 Tea Act passed Tax on tea Boston Tea Party, Anger

1774 Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts) passed Closed the Port of Boston until the colonists paid for the destroyed tea Placed the government of Massachusetts under British control British soldiers accused of murder would stand trial in Britain, not the colonies Sent even more British troops to enforce the new law First Continental Congress bans trade; militias organized