Englands Attempts to Control the Colonies

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Englands Attempts to Control the Colonies

• Colonial Reactions

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Review

• Proclamation of 1763-To keep the peace between
  the Native Americans and the Colonists, the
  British did not allow the Colonists to settle
  west of the Appalachian Mountains
• -Colonists ignored this and settled anyways.
• Sugar Act-set duties (taxes) on molasses and
  sugar imported by the colonists (first act passed
  specifically to raise money in the colonies)

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Review continued

• No taxation without Representation
• -Parliament should not be able to take money from
  the colonists without having a say in the
  government
• Committees of Correspondence-groups that would go
  town to town sharing ideas and information about
  British laws and ways to challenge them

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Review Continued

• Stamp Act-pay and official stamp (seal) on all
  paper products
• -this is the first attempt by the British to tax
  the colonists directly
• Protesting began

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Sons of Liberty

• Colonists formed secret societies
• Samuel Adams helped to form this group in Boston
• Sometimes used violence to frighten tax collectors

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Declaratory Acts

• Through the Stamp Act Congress and the boycotting
  of British goods by the Colonists, the Stamp Act
  was repealed
• Declaratory Act-Parliament has the power to make
  laws for the colonies in all cases whatsoever
• -This was a reaction to the challenge of
  authority by the colonists through the Stamp Act

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Celebration

• Colonists were very excited about the repeal of
  the Stamp Act, and thanked King George-promising
  loyalty
• Speaking too soon..there were several other
  things the colonists and Parliament did not see
  on to eye about.

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Townshend Acts

• Townshend Acts-duties placed on imported glass,
  lead, paint, paper, and tea.
• Money was said to pay for military costs and the
  salaries of the colonial governors.
• -In violation of no standing army during times of
  peace without the colonists consent
• Writs of Assistance-forms that allowed tax
  collectors to search for smuggled goods.
• -Colonists believed this was a violation of their
  rights

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Responses of the Colonists

• In response to the Townshend Acts, colonists
  boycotted British goods.
• Daughters of Liberty-Women who supported the
  boycotting of British goods.
• Colonial Legislatures banded together in protest
  of the British taxes.

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Things Get Heated!!!

• England sent troops to the colonies to restore
  order after they confiscated a ship, accusing
  them of smuggling goods
• Boston Massacre- British soldier got into a fight
  with a colonists-colonists threw snowballs,
  shouted insults, crowd grew bigger-SOLDIER Fired
  into the crowd-killed several colonists.

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Tea Act

• To ease the tension after the Boston Massacre,
  Parliament repeals most of the Townshend Act-tax
  on tea remains.
• British East India Tea Company sold directly to
  the colonies for low price
• Colonial merchants of tea and smugglers felt this
  would put them out of business
• MONOPOLY-gain complete control

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Response to Tea Act

• Ships carrying British tea arrived in Boston
  Harbor-Sons of Liberty demanded they leave.
• Colonists dressed as Native Americans snuck on
  the ship during the night-dumped 342 tea chests
  into the harbor-Boston Tea Party

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Response to the Tea Party

• Intolerable Acts-
• 1. Boston Harbor- closed until all tea is paid
  for
• 2. Massachusetts Charter canceled
• 3. Royal officials accused of crimes were sent
  back to England to await trial
• 4. Quartering Act-forced colonists to house and
  supply British soldiers