1. Calhoun Academy of the Arts 4th Grade
Trouble Over Taxes
Calhoun Academy of the Arts
4th Grade

2. After the War
After the French and Indian War, the British were in a great amount of debt.
Before the war, the British government ignored what was happening in the colonies and let them govern themselves, but after the war British Parliament began to pass a series of laws that changed the relationship between the colonies and the British.
Because the British fought for the colonist land, they felt that the colonies should have to pay the war debt by paying taxes.

3. After the War
Colonist believed it was their right to decided what taxes should be paid, not the King.
The colonists resisted this change through protests and boycotting of British goods

4. Stamp Act
Placed a tax on all papers, such as legal documents and newspapers
Colonists protested this act with the cry, “No taxation without representation.” meaning that colonists did not have representation in the British Parliament and therefore had no voice in the decision making of taxing the colonies.

5. Stamp Act
Colonists wanted to be respected and allowed to make their own decisions.
Colonists organized a Stamp Act Congress, which sent a petition to the King, and declared a boycott on British goods.
Boycott: refuse to buy

6. Stamp Act
This led to the repeal (cancellation) of the Stamp Act
The Sons and Daughters of Liberty was an organized group that protested the British taxes.
Patrick Henry was a member of Virginia’s colonial assembly that wrote a strong protest to the Stamp Act, stating the rights of the colonists.

8. Stamp Act Video

9. Protest Posters

10. Now you create your own colonial protest poster
You are a colonist who wants to protest The Stamp Act and treatment of colonists in your area.
Use information from your notes and text
book to create a poster protesting The Stamp Act
Your poster must include words and illustrations

11. A Message From King George III

12. Townshend Act
Although Parliament repealed the Stamp Act, Great Britain still needed money, to pay off their war debt.
King George III and Parliament wanted the American colonists to understand that they had the right to tax them.
The Townshend Acts placed a tariff (a tax) on imported British goods such as paper, wool, tea, glass, paint, and lead.

13. Townshend Acts
Britain’s goal was to show the colonists who was in charge.
The colonists had to pay these taxes, but the people living in Great Britain did not.
The Townshend Acts caused new protests in the colonies, and the colonist began to boycott, or refuse to buy the British goods.
The boycotts were successful, because British traders lost money.
Parliament repealed all the taxes except a tax on tea.

14. A Message From King George III

15. The Tea Act - 1773 The Tea Act was not a tax
It gave only the British East India Company the right to sell tea in the colonies
Colonists believed that Parliament did not have the right to tax tea, and they did not want to be forced to buy it from only a British company.
In protest, colonists refused to buy tea from the British East India Company.
They even blocked the ships from coming into the port.

16. The Tea Act
In Boston, members of the Son’s of Liberty boarded the British ships and threw 342 chests of tea overboard
These actions, known as the Boston Tea Party, led Parliament to pass the Coercive Acts, also called the Intolerable Acts
John Adams was a Massachusetts leader and member of the Sons of Liberty. He was a strong advocate of independence

17. Tea Party

18. Create A Tea Party Invitation

19. A Message From King George III

20. The Intolerable Acts
King George III and Parliament were furious when they heard about the Boston Tea Party. So they passed a series of laws to punish the people of Boston, called the Intolerable Acts.
The British named these acts the Intolerable (Coercive) Acts, because they were designed to force (coerce) the colonists to pay for the tea they dumped in the harbor.

21. Intolerable Acts
These unbearable punishments under the Intolerable Acts included…
quartering British soldiers, give them food and shelter
Closing the Boston Harbor
Taking away the right of Massachusetts to govern themselves – controlled now by British troops

22. The Intolerable Acts
At first colonists formed the Committee of Correspondence to communicate their situations to each other and then sent delegates to a Continental Congress in order to address the problems of the Intolerable Acts.
The First Continental Congress established a boycott on all trade with Great Britain and sent a petition to the King

23. The Intolerable Acts
The Continental Congress also advised American colonists to arm themselves.
This led to the battle of Lexington and Concord and the start of the Revolutionary War.

24. It’s Too Late to Apologize….

25. Taxes…Fair? Or UnFair?
-Do you think the king’s tax policy was fair? Explain.
- -What is meant by “no taxation without representation?”
-What might have happened if colonists had been allowed to vote for representatives?
-Was it right or wrong for the colonists to rebel against taxes? Explain.
-If you had been a colonist, what would you have done differently?

26. Liberty Kids –Intolerable Acts