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No Taxation without Representation!
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Relations with Britain
• Britain tries to protect us– sends 10,000 troops and the Proclamation of 1763
• Britain has run up big debt from F&I War
• Begins to tax colonies to gain revenue
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Britain’s Trade Laws
• British finance minister– George Greenville
• Tries to stop pirates/smuggling– writs of assistance- search w/o warrants
• Sugar Act– actually lowers tax on molasses to stop smuggling because pirates are cheaper
• it also creates courts w/o juries though- not fair
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Stamp Act• Placed a tax on all
printed stuff (cards, legal docs, newspapers)
• Patrick Henry (VA) helps pass resolution about taxation
• Samuel Adams starts the Sons of Liberty to protest– boycotts, burn effigies, tar and feather tax collectors, non-importation agreements
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•Eventually Britain repeals the Act– cancels, removes
•Creates the Declaratory Act however– Britain can tax whenever on whatever
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The Townshend Acts
• New finance minister– Charles Townsend creates new taxes
• Townshend Acts– only on imported stuff (glass, tea, paper)
• Colonists get more angry, more boycotts
• Daughters of Liberty– encourage American-Made products (coffee, clothes)
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Trouble in Boston• Britain sends two regiments
of redcoat soldiers• Redcoats treat colonists
badly—stole, beat up citizens• Fights break out, colonists
form a mob• 7 redcoats confront the
crowd—colonist yelling, throwing trash, snowballs
• Redcoats start firing—5 colonists killed (Crispus Attucks- black rev. leader)
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• Sam Adams and Paul Revere use propaganda to stir up colonists against British
• Call for stronger boycotts• British Parliament gives in
and repeals all of the Townshend Acts, except on tea
• Committee of Correspondence is formed, communication between colonies
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Crisis Over Tea
• British East India Company gets more tea than they can sell
• Tea Act– the Co. can sell tea in colonies w/o paying tax
• Colonists don’t allow tea to be unloaded from ships in port
• 3 tea ships docked in Boston Harbor• Colonists dress up as Mohawk Indians, sneak on
ships and dump 342 chests of tea• Becomes known as the Boston Tea Party
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The Intolerable Acts• King George III wants to
punish Boston• Pass the Intolerable Acts –did
3 things• 1. Boston Harbor closed
until tea paid for
• 2. No town meetings or gatherings allowed
• 3. Colonists forced to house redcoats
• Meant to be example for other colonies, reverse effect– other colonies unite to help people in Boston