British Parliament raises taxes and the colonists respond.

1. Conflict in the Colonies
Chp. 3/Sec. 5
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3. Great Britain Raises
Taxes
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4. Great Britain Raises
Taxes
• Pay for debt from fighting the French & Indian
war
• Pay for the standing army still in North America
• George Grenville - British Prime Minister who
asked Parliament to tax the colonists
Source: Holt Chp.3/Sec.5
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5. Did you know....?
Image source: http://www.wpclipart.com/money/coins/british_pound_reverse.png
After the Seven Years War, the
British national debt was over 100
million pounds. Hundreds of
thousands of that debt had come
from protecting colonists from the
French and Indians.
1 British pound = $2 U.S. dollars
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6. Sugar Act of 1764
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7. Sugar Act of 1764
• Set duties on molasses and sugar imported by
colonists.
Source: Holt Chp. 3/Sec. 5
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9. vice-admiralty courts
• Courts established by the British Parliament to
try suspected colonial smugglers. The courts
had no juries and the smugglers were
considered guilty until they could prove they
were innocent
Source: Holt Chp.3/Sec.5
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10. Samuel Adams
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11. Samuel Adams
Local leader in Boston who believed
Parliament could not tax colonists
without their permission.
• “No taxation w/o representation”
• Founded the Committees of
Correspondence
i. Committee members shared
information & ideas about new
British laws and how to
challenge them.
ii. Organize boycotts of British
goods
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12. Stamp Act of 1765 Source: http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=65241&rendTypeId=4
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13. Stamp Act of 1765 Source: http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=65241&rendTypeId=4
Required colonists to pay for an
official stamp, or seal when they
bought paper items (legal
documents, newspapers, playing
cards).
i. 1st attempt to tax colonists
directly rather than by
taxing imported goods
Source: Holt Chp.3/Sec. 5
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15. Source: schools.lwsd.org
Sons of Liberty
A group of men organized by
Samuel Adams to protest British
taxes and frighten tax collectors.
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17. American colonials rioting in protest against the unpopular Stamp Act shows them carrying a banner bearing the words ‘The Folly of
England and the Ruin of America’.
Source: http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/21432.html
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Patrick Henry
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Patrick Henry
Virginia lawyer who promoted the
idea that the Stamp Act was a
violation of colonists right as was
the denial of the accused to not
have a trial by jury.
Source: Holt Chp. 3/Sec. 5
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“Give me Liberty, or give me death.”
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21. Stamp Act Congress
(1765)
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22. Stamp Act Congress
(1765)
• Delegates from 9 colonies met in New York to
pressure Parliament to repeal [take away] the
Stamp Act
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23. Stamp Act Congress
(1765)
• Delegates from 9 colonies met in New York to
pressure Parliament to repeal [take away] the
Stamp Act
• Stamp Act repealed in 1766
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24. Stamp Act Congress
(1765)
• Delegates from 9 colonies met in New York to
pressure Parliament to repeal [take away] the
Stamp Act
• Stamp Act repealed in 1766
Source: Holt Chp. 3/Sec. 5
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26. Declaratory Act Source: http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/graphics/stampactprotest.jpg
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27. Declaratory Act Source: http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/graphics/stampactprotest.jpg
Parliament declares its right to
make laws for the colonies “in all
cases whatsoever.”
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28. Townshend Acts
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29. Townshend Acts
• Placed duties on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea
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30. Townshend Acts
• Placed duties on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea
• Parliament gives British officials a search
warrant to search for smuggled goods
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31. Townshend Acts
• Placed duties on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea
• Parliament gives British officials a search
warrant to search for smuggled goods
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32. Townshend Acts
• Placed duties on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea
• Parliament gives British officials a search
warrant to search for smuggled goods
Holt: Chp.3/Sec. 5
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33. Boston Massacre
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34. Boston Massacre
British soldiers fire upon a crowd
of colonists killing three. Colonists
use the event as propaganda.
Source: Holt Chp.3/Sec. 5
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37. John Adams
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38. John Adams
Defended the British troops of the
Boston Massacre claiming the
soldiers had shot in self-defense.
Holt Chp. 3/Sec. 5
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39. John Adams
Samuel Adams
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40. Tea Act
• Allowed the British East India Company to sell
tea directly to the colonists for them to buy
which would also allow Parliament to collect
taxes upon.
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41. Boston Tea Party - December 16th, 1773
Source: http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/5600/5624/boston_tea_party_1_lg.gif
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42. Intolerable Acts
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43. Intolerable Acts
• Closed Boston harbor
• Massachusetts charter canceled, governor decides when
legislature can meet again
• Royal officials accused of crimes must be sent to Britain for trial
• Quartering Act - colonists must house British soldiers
• Quebec Act - Gave land to the Quebec colony
• Thomas Gage the new governor of Massachusetts (royal
governor0
Source: Holt Chp. 3/Sec. 5
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