1. Road to Revolution

2. To Review… After the French and Indian War
England had the supreme power in North America
Debt
Taxed colonists
Proclamation of 1763
Enlightenment
Rousseau, Montesquieu, Locke

3. Long-Term Causes Salutary Neglect Colonies are growing and prospering
Developed their own political institutions
Different ”political culture”
French and Indian War Outcomes

4. Short-term Causes Writs of Assistance Sugar Act 1761
Allowed British troops to search any building or ship
Decrease smuggling
Traders in Boston did not like
Sugar Act
1764
Passed by Parliament to combat smuggling
Lower price of molasses
Hurt merchants and traders

5. The Stamp Act 1765 Direct tax
Went to British gov.
Pay debt from F&I war
Tax on legal documents, playing cards, newspapers
Legal Stamps are required
Affected both rich and poor
British tax collectors were tarred and feathered

6. Declaratory Act After Stamp Act Repealed
Made colonists aware that Parliament had the power to tax them

7. The Quartering Act
1765
Required certain colonies to provide food and quarters(housing) or British troops

8. Townshend Acts 1767 6 acts but known together
New tax placed on imports
Tea
Glass
Paper
Paint
Colonist protest = more British troops

9. Colonists fight back Sons of Liberty - May 1765
Boston
Secret resistance group
Independence
Stamp Act Congress – Oct. 1765
NYC
9 Colonial Delegates
“No taxation without representation”
Colonies began to act as one
Merchants agree not to import goods

10. Cont. Committees of correspondence
Message system to allow colonies to communicate injustices

11. Boston Massacre – 1770 Protest by colonists
British troops fire at crowd
5 colonists killed

12. Boston Tea Party 1773 British East India Company hit by protests
Tax on tea still remains in effect
British company now has a monopoly
Colonists/ Sons of Liberty raided Boston harbor and threw the tea overboard and burned the ships
18,000 gallons of tea
Disguised themselves as Indians

13. Intolerable Acts
Passed by British Parliament as a reaction to the Tea Party
Really called the coercive Acts
Colonist call them The Intolerable Acts
Closed Boston Harbor
Suspended basic civil rights
Housed troops in peoples’ homes