1. Conflict in the Colonies

2.  Great Britain Raises Taxes ◦ Due to the French and Indian War Great Britain faced with how to pay for things. ◦ Needed Army in North America, needed to pay for the war ◦ 1764- Passed the Sugar Act  Tax on Molasses and Sugar imported by the colonists  First Tax specifically to raise money in the colonies  British Navy started to stop ships to check their loads and stop smuggling  Power in the court systems peoples power was taken away. no juries, people were treated as guilty and had to prove their innocents

3.  Taxation without Representation ◦ The actions of the Parliament angered many colonists ◦ The Colonists thought they should have a say in if they get taxed or not ◦ Leaders such as James Otis, Samuel Adams spoke out against these taxes.  Adams at a town meeting in 1764 came up with the slogan no Taxation without Representation  Adams also help start the Committees of Correspondence  Were groups that in towns that looked at laws and ways to challenge them. Boycotting goods was a common method.

4.  Stamp Act of 1765 ◦ Colonists had to buy an official stamp or seal when they bought paper items ◦ Had to be paid on all legal items, newspapers, and other everyday items ◦ Similar act in England ◦ First time colonists were taxed on anything beside imported goods ◦ Protests started ◦ Groups like the Sons of Liberty formed to fight the tax ◦ Patrick Henry fought against the stamp act in court  Said it violated rights

5.  Repealing the Stamp Act ◦ Delegates from the 9 colonies got together and held the Stamp Act Congress in 1765 ◦ Sent a reply on the Stamp Act to congress ◦ It was repealed in 1766 ◦ Parliament was angry that the colonists challenged their authority and issued the Declaratory Act which stated Parliament had the right to make laws for the Colonists

6.  Townshend Acts ◦ June 1767 ◦ Tax on pretty much every type of good that the colonists used ◦ Colonists boycotted and fought the acts ◦ This caused Parliament to disband the Massachusetts Legislature ◦ British troops were sent to keep order in 1768

7.  Boston Massacre ◦ March 1770 ◦ Protests ◦ At some point the British fired into the crowd and ended up killing 5 people ◦ The troops that fired and killed people were put on trial but were found that they acted in self defense

8.  Boston Tea Party ◦ Townsend Acts repealed except Tea Tax ◦ Tea Act 1773- British East India Company had sole right to sell to the colonies ◦ Sons of Liberty demanded that 3 ships loaded with tea leave the Boston Harbor, but they didn’t ◦ Dec. 16, 1773- Colonists dressed as Native Americans, went on to the ships and dumped them into the harbor

9.  Intolerable Acts ◦ British were extremely angry ◦ 1774 Passed the Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts)  Boston Harbor Closed until tea was paid for  Massachusetts Charter revoked  Officials sent to Britain for trial to face friendly judge and jury  Quartering Act- had to house British soldiers  Quebec Act- large amount of land to the colony of Quebec  General Gage becomes the governor of Massachusetts ◦ Led to much anger and tension and eventually the Revolutionary War