1. British Attempts to Reassert Control
AP US History

2. Consolidating Control
Great Britain’s
Britain achieved a major expansion of its territorial holdings by defeating the French, but at tremendous expense, setting the stage for imperial efforts to raise revenue and consolidate control over the colonies.
3.1.I.B
Readings- What is the colonial response to British Actions?
Stamp Act
Committees of Correspondence
Intolerable Acts

3. The Hated Stamp Tax
Stamp Tax
                                                                   

4. Results of the Stamp Act
Degree of Unity
Branick Version of Slide
Think about it—Britain has angered the western frontier with the Proclamation of 1763 and now the east coast with the Stamp Act…
Stamp Act Protests: to 1766

5. Patriots or Terrorists?
                          
                             
                             
Patriots or Terrorists?
Paul Revere
Sons of Liberty was a secret society formed in protest of British rule.
They had a large role in the repeal of the Stamp Act and the Boston Tea Party.
9 original members which included the leaders Samuel Adams and Paul Revere
Samuel Adams
Discuss with your neighbor:
What is the difference between a Patriot and a Terrorist?

6. Annual (Yearly) Tax Burden in the British Empire
British Member
Tax Burden
$72.80
$17 $3 $2
$1.75
Massachusetts
Great Britain
New York
Ireland
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
Ireland
Connecticut
Keep
New York
India
Pennsylvania
South Africa
Maryland
Hong Kong
Virginia
Great Britain

7. The Boston Massacre March 5th, 1770 Taunting Additional Troops
Crispus Attucks
Colonial Reaction
Return to Prosperity
Sam Adams

8. Gaspee Affair
Trade and Navigation Acts
Abuse
June 1772

9. Tea Act of 1773 British East India Company Monopoly on Tea
Reduction in Cost of Tea
Right to Sell
Colonial Reaction
Imported Tea Amounts
Boston Tea Party

10. BRITISH TROOP DEPLOYMENT

11. Expand on Tea Act
The Intolerable Acts closed the port of Boston from Colonial trade and placed Massachusetts under martial law.
Exports & Imports:

12. Effects of the Intolerable Acts
Display of Support
Colonial Reaction

13. The Resistance
The imperial struggles of the mid-18th century, as well as new British efforts to collect taxes without direct colonial representation or consent and to assert imperial authority in the colonies, began to unite the colonists against perceived and real constraints on their economic activities and political rights.
3.1.II.A

14. The Resistance
Colonial leaders based their calls for resistance to Britain on arguments about the rights of British subjects, the rights of the individual, local traditions of self-rule, and the ideas of the Enlightenment.
3.1.II.B
This really could be moved up.

15. The Resistance
The effort for American independence was energized by colonial leaders such as Benjamin Franklin, as well as by popular movements that included the political activism of laborers, artisans, and women.
Sons of Liberty
Mercy Otis Warren
Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania
3.1.II.C