1.  Beginning WEDNESDAY you will be required to do the following: ◦ Tardy to class you must pay $1 to enter ◦ To leave the classroom for ANY reason must pay 50¢ per exit  Write a paragraph on the following: ◦ How do these new policies make you feel? ◦ Why do you think I would implement these new policies? ◦ Do you think the policies are fair?

3.  separated by 3,000 miles of ocean  learned to manage their own affairs  salutary (healthy) neglect – loose control by the British ◦ did not insist on strict enforcement of laws

4.  changed Britain’s policy toward the American colonies  adopted mercantilism ◦ a nation should sell more than it buys ◦ to be successful colonies need to be a cheap source of raw materials

5.  Navigation Acts ◦ series of laws (1651-1673) ◦ colonies can only trade certain goods with England

6.  1754  Benjamin Franklin  called for a federal union  early appearance for common defense

7.  1754-1763  War between American British colonies and France  Long and costly war  Won French territory in North America  To prevent Native American conflict over land colonial settlers were forbidden to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains without British permission (Proclamation of 1763)

8.  Video Clip ◦ Colonists Protest British Policies Colonists Protest British Policies

9.  To pay for heavy war debts  steep taxes and new restrictions  Stamp Act (1765) ◦ colonists must attach expensive stamp to all newspapers and legal documents

10.  Quartering Act (1765) ◦ colonists must provide barracks and supplies to British troops

11.  Sons of Liberty ◦ formed throughout the colonies to oppose the restrictions of Britain  Stamp Act Congress ◦ formed to write a declaration to Britain against new actions ◦ first time majority of colonies joined together to oppose British rule

12.  Stamp Act repealed, or cancelled, by Parliament  At the same time they pass the Declaratory Act ◦ Parliament has the right to tax and make decisions for the American colonies in all cases

13.  Townshend Acts (1767) ◦ placed heavy taxes on imports like paper, glass, and tea ◦ Also legalized the use of the writs of assistance-  general search warrants to enter any location and look for evidence of smuggling  helped customs officers in arresting smugglers

14.  The Boston Massacre (1770) The Boston Massacre (1770) ◦ 5 Bostonians are killed

15.  Repealed the Townshend Acts  Replaced with the Tea Act (1773) ◦ British East India Company  had the right to ship tea to the colonies  did not have to pay taxes usually paid on tea (in other words… made their tea cheaper)

16. “no taxation without representation”  Boston Tea Party Boston Tea Party ◦ December 1773 ◦ Group of angry colonists dressed as Native Americans dumped 342 chests of British tea into the Boston Harbor

17.  Coercive Acts (English) ◦ Intolerable Acts (colonists) ◦ restricting the colonists’ civil rights, including trial by jury

18.  First Continental Congress ◦ September 1774 ◦ writes King George III demanding their rights be restored ◦ made plans to extend the boycott of British goods  King George responded with force ◦ April 1775 ◦ two battles between British and colonial soldiers at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts ◦ became known as the first battles of the Revolutionary War

19.  Second Continental Congress ◦ May 1775 ◦ not every member favored independence ◦ many still loyal to Britain  Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense ◦ January 1776 ◦ published pamphlet to inspire many colonists ◦ called for complete independence from Britain ◦ “common sense” to stop following the “royal brute”

20.  Second Continental Congress ◦ 1776 ◦ more than half of the delegates agreed with Paine ◦ the colonies MUST break away from Britain ◦ the acting government of colonies ◦ appointed committee to write official document declaring independence

21.  government not looking out for interests of colonists  King George is a tyrant and other abuses  list of rights of individuals  power to govern comes from the consent of the governed ~ popular sovereignty  The people have a right to change government if it disregards their rights  independence by theory (on paper)  must win war to be true