1. Imperial Wars and Colonial Protest, 1754-1774
Period 3, Unit 3 ( )
Ch.4
AP U.S. History

2. Think About It
To what extent did the French and Indian War maintain continuity and foster change in the relationship between Great Britain and the 13 Colonies?
To what extent did colonial politics, economics, and culture from 1607 to 1754 influence the development of the American independence movement?

3. Salutary Neglect/Benign Neglect
British absenteeism
Distance between England and America
Political turmoil and relative peace
English Civil War ( )
Glorious Revolution (1688)
Colonies virtually on their own
Developed unique economies based on region
Economic growth
Colonial GNP was 25 million pounds ($2.25 billion)
1/3 of the Great Britain’s GNP
GDP per capita was highest in the world by 1775
Self-government
Proud British loyalists
High life expectancy and literacy rates

4. Britain Exerts More Control
Navigation Acts strengthened
Increased concept of mercantilism
Molasses Act (1733)
Tax on non-British import of sugar

5. French and Indian War (1754-1763)
England vs. France
Washington, Fort Duquense, and Fort Necessity
Most Natives allied with French
William Pitt
Increased British troop activity in America
Colonists contributed to effort
Albany Plan of Union (1754)
Benjamin Franklin
Results/Consequences
British victory
Acquisition of French Canada and land east of Mississippi
War debt
72M pounds (1755)
129M pounds (1764)
British believed more control necessary
Colonial pride

7. Proclamation of 1763 Pontiac’s Rebellion (1763) Purpose
Extensive Native alliance to deter colonists
Purpose
Avoid conflicts
Colonial Reaction
Denial of land

8. British Prime Ministers
Believed colonies
should foot the
bill for wars and
defense
Encouraged unrestricted
development of colonies
Robert Walpole
George Grenville
Charles Townshend
Chancellor of Exchequer
Enforced Parliament’s
power but defended
colonies and desire
for representation
Supported taxation
of the colonies and
ran Parliament
during Revolution
William Pitt
Frederick North

9. Timeline of Parliamentary Acts
Sugar Act of 1764
Revenue tax
Quartering Act of 1765
Stamp Act of 1765
First direct tax
Declaratory Act of 1766
Parliament’s right to tax whatsoever
Townshend Acts of 1767
Pay royal colonial officials
Writs of assistance
Tea Act of 1773
Support British East India Company
“Intolerable Acts”
Coercive Acts of 1774
Massachusetts Government Act (increase power of governor)
Port Act (Boston closed)
Administration of Justice Act (trial of royal officials in G.B. instead of colonies)
Quebec Act of 1774
Appointed government; Catholicism recognized; expanded French lands
Prohibitory Act of 1775
King declared colonies in open rebellion

10. Parliamentary Acts The Sugar Act (1764)
Purpose
Increased regulation of colonial trade
Raise revenue for war debt
Lowered tax rate
Colonial Reaction
Colonial merchants and shippers
Boycotts
Repealed in 1766

11. Parliamentary Acts Stamp Act (1765)
Purpose
First direct tax
Generate revenue for troops in America
Colonial Reaction
“No taxation without representation.” - James Otis
Stamp Act Congress
Sons and Daughters of Liberty
Committees of Correspondence

12. Parliamentary Acts Townshend Acts (1767)
Purpose
Raise revenue for administration of colonies
Glass, tea, paper, lead, paint
Colonial Reaction
Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania - John Dickinson
“If they may be legally deprived… of the privilege of legislation, why may they not, with equal reason, be deprived of every other privilege? Or why may not every colony be treated in the same manner, when any of them shall dare to deny their assent to any impositions that shall be directed?”
Engraving by Paul Revere, 1768

13. Boston Massacre (1770)

15. Parliamentary Acts Tea Act (1773)
Purpose
Support British East India Company
Reaction
Boston Tea Party

16. Parliamentary Acts “Intolerable” Acts (1774)
Purpose
Punishing the people of Massachusetts; bring dissidents under control
Colonial Reaction
The image to the right
And the rest is for Ch.5; we’ll continue then.
Bostonians paying the exciseman
Tar and Feathering

17. The Enlightenment FROM CH.3
Laws of Nature applied to society; respect for humans
Rationalism
The philosophy of John Locke will be influencing the revolutionary feelings in the colonies