TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION CHAPTER 5 SECTION 1

PROCLAMATION OF 1763 BAN SETTLEMENT WEST OF THE APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS IT IS OUR LAND, AND WE ‘RE TAKING IT WE WON THE WAR BAN SETTLEMENT WEST OF THE APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS WE LIVE WHERE WE WANT WE’LL LIVE WHERE WE PLEASE COLONIST FELT THAT IT VIOLATED THEIR RIGHTS AS BRITISH SUBJECTS

SUGAR ACT 1764 NO MORE SUGAR FOR OUR TEA; DO AWAY WITH THIS TAX IS OUR PLEA THIS TAX IS BITTER NO MOLASSES FOR OUR RUM, STOP TAXATION YOU SCUM TAXED SUGAR AS IT ENTERED THE COLONIES. INCOME WAS TO BE USED TO HELP PAY FOR THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR IT RESULTED IN ANTI-BRITISH FEELINGS AND CAUSED COLONIST TO SMUGGLE EVEN MORE

STICK IT TO THE BRITISH, DON’T BUY THEIR GOODS LETS LICK THE STAMP ACT-BUY AMERICAN NO WAY WE WONT PAY STAMP ACT 1765 The tax was repealed due to colonial protest BOYCOTT BRITISH GOODS! In 1765 Parliament passed taxes on all printed goods (newspapers, wills, playing cards, and pamphlets). It required a stamp on all paper products. These Taxes effected everyone in the colonies. It was a direct tax.

QUARTERING ACT 1765 THIS ACT REQUIRED COLONIST TO HOUSE BRITISH TROOPS IN THEIR HOMES BE GONE GET OUT OF OUR HOME HEY HEY YOU CAN NOT STAY IT RESULTED IN ANTI-BRITISH FEELINGS AND CAUSED THE COLONIST TO RESENT THE PRESENCE OF TROOPS. FIND SOME WHERE ELSE TO STAY

DECLARATORY ACT 1766 DID NOT TAX ANY THING STAY AWAY WE MAKE OUR OWN WAY DID NOT TAX ANY THING WE RULE OURSELVES SAID PARLIAMENT HAD THE RIGHT TO TAX THE COLONIST IT SAID THAT PARLIAMENT HAD TOTAL AUTHORITY OVER THE COLONIST COLONIST MUST OBEY PARLIAMENT’S LAWS NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION

TOWNSHEND DUTIES 1767 Taxed paint, paper, tea, glass and lead YOUR WRITS VIOLATE OUR RIGHTS THE PRIME MINISTER IS SINISTER To enforce these taxes, and to find smuggled goods, officers used writs of assistance. These legal documents allowed customs officers to make searches without saying what they were looking for. KEEP OUT OF OUR HOUSE, LOOKING FOR STUFF IS ILLEGAL

BOSTON MASSACRE MARCH 5, 1770 5 COLONIST KILLED BY BRITISH SOLIDER STOP THE VIOLENCE REMOVE THE TROOPS YOUR PRESENCE IS LETHAL MOB THREATEN A SOLIDER GUARDING A CUSTOM HOUSE SNOWBALL ROCKS AND OYSTER SHELLS THROWN GUNS GO OFF GO HOME LEAVE US ALONE SOLDIERS CHARGED WITH MURDER- DEFENDED BY JOHN ADAMS

TEA ACT 1773 TAXES TEA BOSTON TEA PARTY SETS UP A MONOPOLY FOR TEA ONLY TEA FROM THE EAST INDIA COMPANY CAN BE BOUGHT OR SOLD BOSTON TEA PARTY

COERCIVE ACT 1774 BRITISH RESPONSE TO THE BOSTON TEA PARTY WE WILL NOT OBEY LIBERTY CLOSED THE PORT OF BOSTON SENT MORE TROOPS TO AMERICA CLOSED THE MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL ASSEMBLY MARTIAL LAWS IN BOSTON REBELLION IS ON THE RISE LED TO THE BEGINNING OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS