1. Pop Quiz (6.1 & 6.2 Notes)
What was the main difference between Massasoit and Metacomet?
Who won the French and Indian War?
Why was the Ohio River Valley important land?
What prevented colonists from living west of the Appalachian mountains?
Name one thing the Treaty of Paris did.

2. Bellwork: November 27
Journal:
Write in detail about a time you refused to do something you thought was unfair. Why did you behave this way? What happened as a result?

3. Pop Quiz (6.3 Reading)
On a sheet of loose-leaf paper, answer the questions.
1. Why did Great Britain create new taxes for the colonies?
2. Name two Acts that were created that taxed the colonies
3. What did the colonists do in response to these acts?
4. Who were the Sons of Liberty?

4. Trouble over Colonists’ Rights
Chapter 6.3
Trouble over Colonists’ Rights

5. Essential Questions
How did the colonists respond to the sugar and stamp acts, and WHY did they respond this way?

6. Raising Taxes
Britain kept an army in N.A. to protect colonists from American Indian attacks
Armies require money in order to stay supplied and equipped
Prime Minister George Grenville asked Parliament to tax the colonists
Parliament passed the Sugar Act
Taxed molasses and sugar imported by the colonists
First act passed to raise money in the colonies, instead of regulate

7. Other orders
Britain would not allow the colonies to print their own money
Special courts to try smugglers
Prevented goods from being brought to the colonies tax free
No juries, smugglers were treated as guilty until proven innocent

8. Taxation without Representation
Many colonists were upset with the taxes and regulations
Merchants/businesses were hurt
James Otis – protested taxation by parliament
Argued it was unfair to be taxed without a voice in Parliament to speak on their behalf
“Taxation without Representation” became a rallying point for many upset colonists

9. Colonists’ Reactions Reasons Colonists Disliked the Taxes:
Taxation without Representation
Reflected British efforts to gain more control
Challenged the colonists’ efforts to be more autonomous
Hurt colonial economy
Committees of Correspondence-
Groups that contact other towns and colonies
Shared ideas and information about the new laws and way to challenge them

10. Colonist’s Reactions cont’d
Boycott- people refuse to buy certain goods
Women made substitutes for British goods

11. The Stamp Act
1765 Parliament passed a tax on all official documents and publications in the colonies.
Marriage licenses, mortgages, diplomas, playing cards, dice, and newspapers had to have a stamp, or seal, showing that money had been paid for this tax.
The tax money was to pay for keeping British troops in North America
Colonists who refused could be fined or put in jail

13. What happened next… It affected almost everyone, rich or poor
Most colonists hated it
The tax money they were paying was going directly to the British
The colonists had no say in how the tax was spent
This act helped to unify the colonists against the British.
“Taxation without Representation”

14. The results… The Stamp Act unified the colonists against the British.
They refused to stand by and pay unfair taxes without a voice.
Groups began to protest the Stamp Act, and other unfair taxes.
Colonists formed secret societies called Sons of Liberty
sometimes used violence to frighten tax collectors
Ex: Tarring and feathering
Many businesses openly ignored the law and refused to buy stamps

17. Join or Die

18. Join or Die Political Cartoon created by Benjamin Franklin
Encouraged the colonies to unite against the British
Was first published in 1754, but used throughout the American Revolution to rally colonists against the British.

19. Repealing the Stamp Act
Patrick Henry presented a series of resolutions to the House of Burgesses in Virginia
Said the Stamp Act violated colonists rights
Stamp Act Congress was held in New York
Delegates from 9 colonies met
Asked Parliament to repeal – or end, the act
British trade suffered from the boycott
Parliament repealed the act in 1766

20. What next? Declaratory Act
Members of Parliament were upset that colonists challenged their authority
Issued the declaratory act which stated that Parliament had the power to make laws for the colonies “in all cases whatsoever”.

21. Connect to Bellwork
Think back to our bell work, how was your response similar to, or different than the colonists?

22. Describe the most damage you think you could cause with a snowball.
December 8, 2010
Describe the most damage you think you could cause with a snowball.

23. Review Why was the Stamp Act Created?
To generate money for British troops in the colonies
Why were the colonists upset by the Stamp Act?
They had to pay to support the troops that they didn’t even want there
How did the Stamp Act unite different groups of colonists?
Rich/poor were both affected by the tax; created “Sons of Liberty”
What effect would the Stamp Act have on the colonies?
Lead to other protests and the American Revolution