Rev. War.

1. US History
Ms. Gonzalez
October 7, 2015
Aim: Were the colonists justified in resisting
British policies after the French and Indian War?
Do now: Read the table and answer the
question below;
1.What do all the conflicts have in
common? [Name 3 things they share]
1.They were all violent clashes
2.They all involved the colonists fighting
against Native Americans
3.The conflicts started because colonists
were moving into Indian land.

2. HW Review
• What were the effects of the
French & Indian War?
•For Great Britain?
•For the American colonies?

3. The Navigation Acts (1650)
• Colonists were required to transport goods
only on British ships
• Goods & raw materials (sugar, tobacco,
indigo, furs) could only go to England.
• Purpose: To make England a wealthy
nation

4. The Navigation LawsNavigation Laws were not enforced. The
period of time when the laws were not enforced
by Great Britain is known as salutarysalutary
neglect.neglect. The colonies were allowed to rule
themselves during this time.
Colonies don’t follow the rules…
 Merchants disregarded
or evaded restrictions,
some got rich by
smuggling (e.g. John
Hancock)

5. What is Salutary Neglect?

6. What does it mean that the
period of Salutary Neglect
ended?

7. o What did the British do
after the French & Indian
war?
o How did the American
colonists react?

8. What the British
did:
How the colonists
responded:
• They issued the
Proclamation line
of 1763 which
prohibited (banned or
stopped) all
movement and
settlement west of
the Appalachian
Mountains
• The colonists
resented the
Proclamation line.
Many defied
(resisted or challenged)
the Proclamation
and moved west
anyway.

10. What the British
did:
How the colonists
responded:
• The colonists
responded with
written protests
and cries of “No
taxation without
representation”
• Passed the Sugar
Act to pay for the
war debt. This was a
tax on
sugar/molasses but
also provided for
stricter enforcement
of the Navigation
Acts.
• (the tax was 3 cents—
today about $7)

11. Sugar Act (1764)
Molasses

12. What the British
did:
How the colonists
responded:
• Violent protests
• Sons of Liberty
group organized
boycott of British
goods
• The Stamp Act
was a tax on almost
all printed materials.
• It taxed:
• Newspapers
• Playing cards
• Dice
• Marriage
certificates

13. Stamp Act (1765)
British tax stamps used under the Stamp Act.
To protest means to express opposition or
disagreement.
To boycott means to stop buying/using/trade
British goods.

14. The Sons
& Daughters
of Liberty
• protested in the
streets
• harassed tax
collectors
• boycotted trade
with England

15. What the British
did:
How the colonists
responded:
• Many colonists
refused to allow the
soldier into their
homes.
• The Quartering
Act required the
colonists to feed the
British soldiers and
allow them to sleep in
their houses.

16. The Quartering Act

17. What the British
did:
How the colonists
responded:
• More protests
• Boston
Massacre: a
street fight between
colonists who were
throwing snowballs,
stones, and sticks,
and a squad of
British soldiers.
The Townshend
Act placed taxes on
glass, paper, and paint
brought into the
colonies.

18. Townshend Act (1767)Boston Massacre

19. What the British
did:
How the colonists
responded:
• Boston Tea
Party: a group of
Boston colonists
destroyed a
shipment of tea in
protest.
The Tea Act placed
a tax on tea brought
into the colonies.

20. Tea Act (1773)Boston Tea Party

21. What the British
did:
How the colonists
responded:
• Colonists
organized the 1st
Continental
Congress:
delegates (people)
from the colonies
met and wrote a
letter to the King in
protest.
The Intolerable
Acts or (Coercive
Acts) punished
Boston for dumping
tea.
•Closed Boston
harbor until it paid for
damages

22. Intolerable Acts (1774)

23. o Were the colonists justified
in resisting British policies
after the French and Indian
War?