Chapter 7
Dec 27, 2015
Resistance
Felt British did not care about their needs
Britain in financial crisis
Tighten laws against smuggling Writs of assistance --- search warrant Searching business --- homes
Mercantilism
Justified control over the colonies
Benefit mother country
Currency problems
Royal Veto
Favorable Balance of Trade Export more than
Import Navigation Laws =
1650 Transported only on
British ships
Salutary Neglect
Sugar Act
1764
Increased the duty on foreign made molasses West Indies
Taxed imports = not been taxed before
Those accused of smuggling would be tried in vice-admiralty court
Had little impact on colonists
Quartering Act
1765
Provide food and shelter for redcoats
Use Stamp Act to pay for new military force
Stamp Act
1765
Tax on documents and printed items Wills, Newspapers, Playing cards
Stamp = prove that tax had been paid
Boycott British goods until Stamp Act was repealed March 1766 --- Parliament repealed law
Resistance
Stamp Act Congress – 1765 27 delegates / 9
states Intercolonial unity Nonimportation
Agreements Protests
Sons of Liberty Daughters of Liberty Sam Adams Committees of
Correspondence Spread resistance
Declaratory Act
1766
Passed the same day the Stamp Act was repealed
“Bind the colonies and people of America in all cases whatsoever”
Townshend Acts
1767
Taxed goods that were imported into the colony from Britain Lead, glass, paint, and
paper Tax on tea
Pay salaries = Governors/Judges
Boycotted British goods Sam Adams
Boston Massacre
March 5, 1770
Taunted British soldiers
Shot accidentally fired 11 killed / wounded
Townsend Act costing more to enforce Repealed Act Kept tax on tea
Tea Act
1773
British East India Company Going bankrupt Allowed to sell tea to the colonies free of
taxes
Cut colonial merchants out of tea trade
Colonists did not want to buy cheaper tea
Boston Tea Party
December 16, 1773 Boston rebels board British ships Dressed as Native Americans Dumped 18,000 pounds of tea into Boston harbor
Intolerable Acts
1774 Shut down Boston Harbor
Boston Port Act
Quartering Act House soldiers in vacant
private homes and other buildings
Thomas Gage Appointed the new
Governor of Massachusetts Placed Boston under
martial law --- military force
Quebec Act
French guaranteed their Catholic Religion Retain old customs
Boundaries extended southward to Ohio River
First Continental Congress September 1774 55 Delegates – Philadelphia
12 / 13 Colonies represented 7 weeks
Drew up Declaration of Colonial Rights Right to run own affairs If British used force colonist would fight back
Established militia Stockpiled firearms - gunpowder
Lexington and Concord
April 18 1775
Paul Revere Sent warning out 700 British troops = Redcoats
Headed to Concord
70 minutemen - Lexington 8 minutemen killed --- 10
wounded 1 British soldier injured
First Battle of the Revolutionary War
Concord
Redcoats marched on to Concord
Arsenal was empty Headed back
3,000 – 4,000 minutemen assemble now
Fired on the troops as they marched home
Imperial Strength/Weakness
Strengths7.5 million Brits to 2.5 colonistsNaval powerProfessional army v. militiaHessiansLoyalists / Native Americans
WeaknessesSympathyDistanceGeography