1. Identify the eight sets of initials that label the eight pieces of snake.
What point is Ben Franklin making about the importance of colonial unity?
Possible answer - Without sticking together the colonies would not survive.

2. Chapter 5 Section 2 The Colonists Resist Tighter Control
How did the French and Indian War draw the colonists closer together but increase friction with Britain?
8.15 I can Explain how the practice of salutary neglect, experience with self-government, and widespread ownership of land fostered individualism and contributed to the American Revolution.
8.22 Analyze the social, political, and economic causes of the American Revolution.

3. Chapter 5 Section 2 Objectives
Explain the conflict between Native Americans and British settlers in 1763.
Describe how the colonists responded to British tax laws.
Describe what happened during the Boston Massacre.
But frist, just what is salutary neglect?

4. Just what is salutary neglect?
Salutary neglect was a British policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws, meant to keep the American colonies obedient to Great Britain. But the policy had an unintended side effect: it enabled the colonies to operate independently of Britain, both economically and politically, and to forge an American identity.
This “salutary neglect” contributed to the increasing autonomy, (self-government; freedom to act or function independently), of colonial legal and legislative institutions, which ultimately led to American independence.

5. Salutary Neglect!
Not enforcing the rules. What would happen in a classroom or on a school bus if the teacher and the driver did not enforce the rules.

6. Terms and People Duty import tax Boycott Petition Writ of assistance
organized campaign to refuse to buy certain products
Petition
written request to a government
Writ of assistance
court order that allowed officials to make searches without saying what they were searching for
John Adams
Massachusetts lawyer and colonial leader; future president
Samuel Adams
colonial leader who established the Committee of Correspondence

7. The colonists resist tighter control Committees of Correspondence
Label each line of your flip chart with the information below. Complete the pages with information that explains each section.
The colonists resist tighter control
Chapter 5 section 2
Pontiac’s Rebellion
Proclamation Act of 1763
Sugar Act
Quartering Act
Stamp Act
Townshend Acts
Committees of Correspondence

8. Disputes with the British government Native Americans
How did the French and Indian War increase friction within the colonies and with Britain?
The end of the war brought celebration. But it did not bring peace. New conflicts soon threatened to tear the colonies apart.
Disputes with
the British
government
Fighting with
Native
Americans

9. With the French defeat in the Seven Years’ War, Britain gained vast new lands in North America.
Native Americans
saw a new threat
to their lands.
Colonists saw
endless room
for settlement.

10. Pontiac, the leader of the Ottawa nation, took action to stop settlers from pushing farther west. Pontiac brought together numerous tribes to fight the colonists.
Pontiac and his allies launched a bloody attack on British forts and towns. The British responded with equally brutal attacks against Native Americans.
The British defeated Pontiac in 1764, but thousands of settlers and Native Americans had been killed.

11. To stop the vicious fighting between the colonists and the Native Americans, King George III declared the Appalachian Mountains to be the western boundary for the colonies.
Thus, hoping to avoid further wars, the British issued the Proclamation of 1763.
It forbid colonists from settling west of a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.

12. Consequences of the Proclamation Act Of 1763
Number one represents what?
The British Authorities
Number 2 represents what?
Trappers and long hunters (Daniel Boone and other fur trappers)
Number three represents what?
Colonists looking for land to settle on, land they could own.
Number four represents what?
Land speculators that buy up land and re-sell it for profit.

13. Stamp Act
Passed on Paper Products
Passed to pay for war debt
Brought about the famous James Otis quote “No Taxation without Representation
Patrick Henry begins to make speeches against the British authorities in the Carolinas
Stamp Act Congress formed to protest the Stamp Act (1st ever meeting of continental representatives from the colonies)
Congress sends a petition to the King
Congress begins a boycott of British Goods
Merchants and people accept the Boycott
1766 Parliament repeals the tax but passes the Declaratory Act in response
Act states that only Parliament has authority over the colonies and not colonial congresses

14. Frontier settlers who had already moved west were told to move back
Frontier settlers who had already moved west were told to move back. Colonists could settle only east of the line.
Colonists
Native
Americans
Colonists
Appalachian Mountains
West
East

15. The Proclamation of 1763 angered many colonists, who believed they had the right to settle wherever they wanted.
Proclamation
of 1763
The colonists largely ignored the proclamation, and Britain found it impossible to enforce. Tensions rose.

16. Colonists increasingly
Colonists had fought
and died to help
win the French
and Indian War.
Colonists expected Britain
to be grateful for the
their help.
Colonists were
loyal subjects; they
expected to have the
same rights as other
British citizens.
Colonists increasingly
believed their rights
were being
threatened.

17. British leaders were concerned about paying for their costly colonies.
The war had put Britain in debt.
Britain continued to spend money on
troops to protect the colonists from
Native Americans.
British leaders expected the colonists
to help pay expenses.
What do you think, should the
colonists help pay for
their own protection?
Do we pay for our own protection today?
British leaders
were concerned
about paying for
their costly
colonies.

18. How did the French and Indian War draw the colonists closer together but increase friction with Britain?
REVIEW
What is Salutary Neglect?
Not enforcing the rules
What Native American waged war with the colonists after the French and Indian War?
Pontiac
What consequences did this Native American War have on the colonists?
Distrust of the Native Americans, colonists joined together in self defense and rule, etc……………
How did the Proclamation Act of 1763 affect the colonist opinion of British rule?
Colonist began to distrust their own government and the governors appointed by the crown, colonist began to openly defy the British authorities and crown.
Tomorrow we will begin to look at the taxes the British Crown placed on the colonist.

19. Put a duty (TAX) on products such as molasses
To raise money, British leaders imposed a series of new laws forcing the colonists to share the financial burden.
Sugar Act
1764
Put a duty (TAX) on products such as molasses
Quartering Act
1765
Required colonists to house British troops
Stamp Act
Required colonists to buy special stamps for many products and activities

20. The colonists were outraged, and protests quickly spread throughout the colonies.
The Virginia House of Burgesses and other colonial assemblies declared that they alone—the only places where the colonists were represented—had the right to tax the colonists.
Merchants organized boycotts (refuse to buy or handle (goods) as a punishment or protest) against British goods.

21. The Congress sent a petition to the king and Parliament,
Of all the new laws, the Stamp Act was the most unpopular. Delegates from nine colonies formed the Stamp Act Congress to take action.
The Congress sent a petition
to the king and Parliament,
demanding the repeal
of the tax laws.

22. Parliament did repeal the Stamp Act.
But at the same time it passed the Declaratory Act , stating that Parliament had total authority over the colonies.
King and
Parliament
Colonies

23. More new laws, and more protests, followed.
The Townshend Acts taxed goods brought into the colonies. Because so many colonists objected to the taxes, and to the writs of assistance that enforced them, Parliament repealed all but the tax on tea.
Anger on both sides soon led to a bloody confrontation.

24. In 1770, an angry crowd surrounded a group of soldiers in Boston.
Frightened, the soldiers fired, killing five people.

25. Committees of Correspondence
John Adams, a colonial leader, defended the soldiers, believing they should receive a fair trial. Still, the Boston Massacre became a rallying point for the colonists.
Leaders from different colonies began exchanging information and ideas, helping to unite the colonists against the British.
Committees of
Correspondence

26. 7. Committees of Correspondence
Draw the graphic organizer seen here, and fill in the stars with the information needed to explain each.
2. Proclamation of 1763
1. Pontiac’s
Rebellion
3. Sugar Act
Title:
The Colonists Resist Tighter Control
7. Committees of Correspondence
4. Quartering
Act
6. Townshend
Acts
5. Stamp
Act