Revolutionary Acts Chapter 6.1 Tighter British Control
Feb 23, 2016
Revolutionary Acts
Chapter 6.1 Tighter British Control
New Rules
• When the addition of the school is finished, you will not be moving into it, but will stay here with no air conditioning or heat
• Unfortunately, there will now be 5 people to a locker• For every item that contains sugar (cookie, soda pop…) you
must pay Miss Hansen $1• For every piece of paper in your backpack right now you must
pay Miss Hansen $.50• For every electronic device you have you must pay Miss Hansen
$50• If you protest you will lose all of your participation points for
this week• You all will eat lunch in the cafeteria in silence
Proclamation of 1763
-When the addition of the school is finished, you will not be moving into it, but will stay here with no air conditioning or heat-Cause: French and Indian War, but more importantly Pontiac’s Rebellion
-Colonists could not settle west of Appalachian Mountains
-Effect: Angered the colonists, many of them ignored it anyway, King George sends troops
Quartering Act
Unfortunately, there will now be 5 people to a locker
Colonists must house and provide supplies for troops• Cause: colonists ignored
the Proclamation of 1763, troops sent to enforce proclamation
• Effect: saves British money, angers the colonists even more, the eventual Townshend Acts
War is Expensive
• Revolutionary War - $101 million• War of 1812 - $90 million• Mexican War - $71 million• Civil War: Union - $3,183,000• Civil War: Confederacy – $1,000,000• Spanish-American War – $283 million• WWI - $20 billion• WWII - $296 billion• Korea - $30 billion• Vietnam - $111 billion• Persian Gulf - $61 billion• Iraq - $715 billion• Afghanistan/Other - $297 billion• Total Post-9/11 – Iraq, Afghanistan/other - $1, 046,000,000
French and Indian War
• The French and Indian War cost Britain 40 million pounds, which is $63,564,000• They had to figure out how to pay
off the war• The colonists were their answer
The Sugar Act
For every item that contains sugar (cookie, soda pop…) you must pay Miss Hansen $1
Tax on sugar, molasses, and other products shipped to colonies
• Cause: to pay off the French and Indian War
• Effect: strict enforcement, harsh punishment for smugglers, angered colonists
• “TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION”
Stamp Act (1765)
All legal and commercial docs must have official stamp saying tax was paid
• Cause: to pay off the French and Indian War
• Effect: effected everyone in colonies, not just merchants, led to protests and boycotts, as well as the Stamp Act Congress (first assembly to act together in protest in colonies), Sons of Liberty emerge, customs official tarred and feathered, many quit
For every piece of paper in your backpack right now you must pay Miss Hansen $.50
Declaratory Act 1766
If you protest you will lose all of your participation points for this week
Parliament’s authority and laws were binding in the colonies
• Cause: boycotts were hurting British trade, repealed (canceled) the Stamp Act
• Effect: Britain declares that IT has complete control of the colonies, colonists angry
Townshend Acts
Suspended NY’s assembly until agreed to pay to house troops, placed taxes on goods• Cause: colonists refuse to
house troops• Effect: because taxes were to
be paid before arrival of good a lot of smuggling occurred, which let to writs of assistance (searching of houses), protests immediately break out, pressure from Sons/Daughters of Liberty, riots begin when British try to seize American ship Liberty, 1,000 more redcoats arrive taking jobs from the colonists
You all will eat lunch in the cafeteria in silence