4. Effects of the War
• --Gave unchallenged supremacy in North
America
• --dominant naval power in the world
• --American colonies no longer face the threat
of attacks from the French, the Spanish or
Indian allies
5. The British View
• Low opinion of colonial military effort—poorly
trained, disorderly rabble—refusing to
contribute money or troops to the war effort.
6. The Colonial View
• Proud of their military performance
• Confident of their own defense
• Not impressed with the British effort—badly
suited for American terrain
• Still very proud to be British
7. 2 Big Problems for the King
• A huge area to maintain
• A huge war debt
• The End of Salutary Neglect
8. Proclamation of 1763
• To deal with the problem of maintaining a
large empire and stabilizing the western
frontier and prevent hostilities between
colonists and Native American.
• Colonists reaction: anger and defiance
9. • The Proclamation was a first in a series of
actions and reactions—
• British: each act justified as proper method of
protection and sharing the cost of burden
• Colonists: each act threatened their liberties
and long established practice of
representative government
10. New Revenues and Regulations
• Sugar Act: placed duties on foreign sugar,
lower price of molasses, stricter enforcement
of the Navigation act and established vice
admiralty courts.
• Quartering Act: required the colonists to
provide food and living quarters for British
soldiers
11. • The Stamp Act—required revenue stamps on
most printed paper—legal
documents, newspapers, pamphlets etc--
antagonized and unified the colonist the most.
• Why? Not a tax on trade for commerce sake—
it was a tax to raise money without the
consent of the colonial assemblies. First direct
tax.
12. • Patrick Henry
• The Stamp Act Congress
• Sons and Daughters of Liberty
• Boycotts
• Repealed having never collected one cent
13.
14. To what extent did changes in
British policies toward the
American colonies after 1763
cause the American Revolution?
15. The Townshend Acts
• Tax on tea, glass, and paper—provided the
authority to search private homes for
smuggled goods.
• Reaction –boycott—repeal of the acts
16. “No Taxation without Representation”
• John Dickinson: Letters of a Pennsylvania
Farmer– stated that taxes were legal to
regulate trade only, not to raise $$
• “virtual representation vs actual
representation”
18. The Tea Excitement
• The Tea Act—to save the East India Tea
company from going bankrupt—actually
lowered the price of tea—so what was the
problem??
20. Reaction From England
• The Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
• --closed the Boston Harbor
• --Put in a royal governor
• --trials in England
• --expanded the Quartering act to all colonies
21. Cooperation and War
• New Sources of Authority emerged as royal
authority in the colonies crumbled.
• --Sons of Liberty—vigilante action and
boycotts
• --Committees of Correspondence-
• First Continental congress 1774—endorsed
grievances, recommended colonies prepare
militarily and agreed to meet again next year