Acts That Break Apart an Empire

Objective: I can explain the economic and political origins of the American Revolution.

Preview: Answer: What actions would lead you to leave your country?

Process: Albany Congress/Plan of Union and Proclamation of 1763 Guided notes.

On Your Own: Acts foldable and Group “Gallery Crawl”

Albany Congress and Plan of Union

Proclamation of 1763

Congress at Albany, 1754

Keith Hughes Explains the Albany Plan of Union

7 colonies gathered in Albany, NY to discuss how the colonies can unify and defend themselves after the French and Indian War.

Ben Franklin: Proposed and wrote the Albany Plan of Union (thanks Iroquois nation for your awesome League of 6 nations, what a good idea!)

A president appointed by Great Britain

Elect representatives from each colony

Make laws for colonies

Raise taxes for colonies

Set-up one defense for the colonies

Colonists reject the plan before the King can even look at it!

Important BECAUSE…it was a forerunner of the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution.

• Why are there only 8 segments of the snake?• Why do you think this image was so persuasive to

colonists who may never have thought of the separate colonies as parts of a whole?

Proclamation of 1763

The prime result of Pontiac’s Rebellion. British policymakers used this proclamation. Imaginary line at the crest of the Appalachian Mountains

› It forbid settlers to move west of the line› Ordered all settlers west of the line “to remove

themselves”› No purchasing land from Indians.

Colonists’ Response First of many laws issued by Parliament that would lead to

the American Revolution. Many ignore it completely

Ahhh Lovely Salutary Neglect

1713-1763- Americans see reduced government intervention in colonial affairs Leave them alone=produce more wealth Colonies develop self-reliance 13 separate colonial governments emerge Colonists get used to running own affairs

England Regulates Trade: Remember Mercantilism?

By the 1700s trade flourished all along the Atlantic coast. As trade increased, England began to take a new interest in its colonies.

England believed that its colonies existed for the benefit of the home country = mercantilism.

England began passing a series of laws called the Navigation Acts that regulated trade between England and its colonies.

Mercantilism

This made England RICH!!

England wanted to make sure that its colonies didn’t trade with anyone but them.

The English colonies are producing a LOT of goods and shipping them to England!

Tobacco Lumber

Indigo Wheat

Rice Cotton

Navigation ActsWhy was it good for England?

The laws passed in the Navigation Acts guarantee that only England would make money off the goods from its colonies.

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Goods shipped

To England MONEY!

The Navigation ActsWhy was it GOOD for the colonists?

1.The laws encouraged colonists to build their own ships to transport their goods. New England became a prosperous ship building center. (Hmmm . . . this may come in handy when the colonists go to war with England!)

2.Colonial merchants always had a market (ENGLAND) to sell their goods.

The Navigation ActsWhy was it BAD for the colonists?

1.Only English ships could carry goods to and from the colonies.

2.Colonists who grow cotton or tobacco can only ship their goods to ENGLAND! (this created lots of jobs in England where workers would cut and roll the tobacco or spin the cotton into cloth.)

3.Colonists were not allowed to sell their raw materials to anyone but England therefore losing money they could be making from other countries.

End of Salutary Neglect

1763 marks new era in relations between England & colonies: Continuous attempts to enforce the Navigation

Acts Enormous debt from 7 Years War (French and

Indian War)- British want colonists to pay King George III sought increased control over

colonies