Take Five… What is the difference between an internal and external tax?
Years of Tumult
Salutary Neglect Navigation acts, Prohibiting paper currency, Regulating trade Robert Walpole’s attitude Confusion and corruption of government
Attitude of colonists Little Parliaments Little England Albany Plan Benjamin Franklin
Take Five
The Wars Resume Seven Years War ( French and Indian war) Conflict over the Ohio River Valley Virginia fights back Robert Dinwiddie Fort Necessity Impressments Germ warfare
The Glorious Victory William Pitt General Wolfe Attacking Quebec Peace of Paris
Gains of the Seven Years’ War Conflicts of interest “British Canada” Sugar islands British rule in Canada French Indians General Sir Jeffrey Amherst Pontiac’s Rebellion Proclamation Line of 1763
Map of Ohio River Valley Region
The “Redcoats” in the Colonies The Quartering Act Establishing Parliamentary rule over the colonies William Pitt and the English national debt
George Grenville (1763) Changing the Molasses Act American Revenue Act (Sugar Act of 1764) New England’s reaction Whigs Elected assemblies Trial by jury Boycotting imports
The Currency Act (1764) Post war economic depression “Middling class” outrage Distribution of pamphlets Reduction of the tax on molasses
The Stamp Act of 1765 Acts of noncompliance Vice-admiralty Courts John Dickinson Sons of Liberty Boycotts and violence Virginia resolves Patrick Henry The Stamp Act Congress James Otis Declaration of Rights and Grievances Lese-majeste
The Stamp Tax
The British Constitution Ideals of the Magna Carta Conflicts over representation Colonial viewpoint British viewpoint “Virtual representation”
King George III
“Kings friends” Dismissal of Grenville Lord Rockingham (July ) Repeal of the Stamp Act Declaratory Act Protest back at home… Lord Chatham (William Pitt)
Charles Townshend ( ) Townshend Duties Charles Townshend Mutiny Act (Quartering Act) 1765 Disbanding the New York assembly (army hq) Taxes on imports (external taxes) From Eng.: lead, paint, paper & tea Boycotts—”American goods” becomes fashionable Massachusetts Assembly Circular letter Lord North Repeal of the Townshend Duties