1. Today you need: Spiral Pen/Pencil Pick up Acts Chart from front table
Test Grades posted
Absent yesterday?
Need to take test – see whiteboard
Today you need: Spiral Pen/Pencil Pick up Acts Chart from front table
Tape your chart in your spiral – leaving the top white space blank

2. Why would this Proclamation lead to anger?
1763
Proclamation of 1763 issued
To keep peace with Natives
Colonists can’t move past Appalachian Mountains.
Proclamation leads to anger
Why would this Proclamation lead to anger?
Who issued the Proclamation?

3. First set of “ACTS” were over a period of 100 years. . . .

5. The Colonies exist to benefit the “Mother Country”
Navigation Acts
1650s-1750s
Navigation Acts
Colonists could only trade with Britain (mercantilism)
Smuggling to avoid paying the taxes
The Colonies exist to benefit the “Mother Country”

6. Colonists considered this Act tyranny Unjust use of power
1764
Sugar Act
Taxed sugar and molasses
Anger, protests -
“Taxation w/o representation”
Why would the Sugar Act cause anger?
What was Taxation without Representation?
Colonists considered this Act tyranny
Unjust use of power

7. Quartering Act
To “Quarter = to house”

8. Why would this cause anger among the colonists?
1765
Quartering Act
Colonists required to house and supply British soldiers
Anger
Why would this cause anger among the colonists?

9. 1765
Stamp Act passed
(repealed 1766)
Taxed all legal documents such as diplomas, contracts and wills
Documents had to carry a stamp showing that the tax had been paid
Boycott of British goods;
Protests,
Burning effigies

11. Sam Adams
Adams was a driving force behind the protests. He was a member of the Sons of Liberty who started the Committee of Correspondence to stir public support for American independence.

12. LAWYER
REBEL

13. 1766
Declaratory Act passed
Declared Parliament’s supreme authority to govern/tax the colonies
Power struggle with Parliament

14. 1767
Townshend Acts passed
(repealed 1770)
Taxed glass, paint, paper, tea and lead.
New boycotts; “Natural Rights” (John Locke) threatened

15. Protests immediately broke out at news of the Townshend Acts
Went against “natural rights” (JOHN LOCKE)
“No one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions”

16. Boston Massacre - 1770 Boston Massacre
Deadly riot caused the death of 5 colonists.
Paul Revere creates an engraving as anti-British propaganda
Anger spreads throughout the colonies through newspapers

17. 1773
Tea Act passed
Tax on tea
Boston Tea Party,
Anger

18. 1774
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts) passed
Closed the Port of Boston until the colonists paid for the destroyed tea
Placed the government of Massachusetts under British control
British soldiers accused of murder would stand trial in Britain, not the colonies
Sent even more British troops to enforce the new law
First Continental Congress bans trade;
militias organized