Conflicts that Created Change In Colonial America

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Conflicts that Created Change In Colonial America
By Angela Daley
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Conflicts that Created Change In Colonial America
1740-The Great Awakening 1764 - Navigation Acts
1764 - Molasses and Sugar Act 1765 - Stamp
Act 1773 - The Tea Act 1773 - Boston Tea
Party 1774 - Intolerable Acts
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The Great Awakening

• revitalization of religious piety that swept
  through the American colonies between the 1730s
  and the 1770s

• view that being truly religious meant trusting
  the heart rather than the head, prizing feeling
  more than thinking, and relying on biblical
  revelation rather than human reason.

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Men of the Great Awakening

• Reverend William Tennent, established a seminary
  to train clergymen it is better known today as
  Princeton University.

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Men of the Great Awakening

• Jonathan Edwards evoked terrifying images of the
  corruption of human nature in his famous
  description of the sinner as a loathsome spider
  suspended by a slender thread over a pit of
  seething brimstone in his best known sermon,
  "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."

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Conflicts from the Great Awakening Created Change

• In communities the Great Awakening produced
  tension and rivalry, so that religious harmony
  that had existed was disrupted.
• The Great Awakening was a conflict that
  dissembled church communities and then re-joined
  them within a new sense of unity.

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End of Salutary Neglect

• The Navigation Acts of the 17th century allowed
  colonists only to produce agricultural goods and
  raw materials.
• The acts reserved the profitable enterprises such
  as manufacturing goods and providing commercial
  services to British residents.

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Conflict from the End of Salutary NeglectCreated
Change

• In 1732 Parliament made this ban more specific,
  prohibiting Americans from marketing
  colonial-made hats.

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The Molasses and Sugar Act

• placed a high tariff on molasses imported into
  the mainland colonies from the West Indies.
• These taxes discouraged colonists living in port
  cities from distilling their own rum
• Then in 1750, Parliament extended the ban on
  colonial manufactures to produce products such as
  plows, axes, and skillets.

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Conflict from the Molasses and Sugar Act created
Change

• These taxes discouraged colonists living in port
  cities from distilling their own rum
• Then in 1750, Parliament extended the ban on
  colonial manufactures to produce products such as
  plows, axes, and skillets.

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The Stamp Act

• used as a means of raising revenue in the
  American colonies.
• The Stamp Act required all legal documents,
  licenses, commercial contracts, newspapers,
  pamphlets, and playing cards to carry a tax
  stamp.
• intended to raise money to defray the cost of
  maintaining the military defenses of the
  colonies.

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Conflict from the Stamp Act Created Change

• Passed without debate, it aroused widespread
  opposition among the colonists, who argued that
  because they were not represented in Parliament,
  they could not legally be taxed without their
  consent.

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The Tea Act

• The Tea Act of 1773 maintained the tax on tea and
  gave the English East IndiaTea Company a monopoly
  on the export of tea.
• The company's tea ships ran into trouble in
  American ports, most notably in Boston, where on
  December 16, 1773, colonials dressed as Native
  Americans dumped a shipload of tea into the
  harbor.

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The Tea Act Created Change

• Colonists used boycotts and propaganda, held the
  Boston Tea Party, and destroyed tea shipments in
  some colonies.
• British reacted with the Intolerable Acts

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The Boston Tea Party

• On the evening of December 16, a group of
  Bostonians, instigated by the American patriot
  Samuel Adams and many of them disguised as Native
  Americans, boarded the vessels and emptied the
  tea into Boston Harbor.
• When the government of Boston refused to pay for
  the tea, the British closed the port.

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Boston Tea Party Created Change

• Britain responded to this Boston Tea Party with
  the Intolerable Acts of 1774, which closed the
  port of Boston until Bostonians paid for the tea.
  
• The acts also permitted the British army to
  quarter its troops in civilian households,
  allowed British soldiers accused of crimes while
  on duty in America to be tried in Britain or in
  another colony, and revised the Massachusetts
  Charter to abolish its elected legislature.

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The Intolerable Act

• As punishment for the Boston Tea Party,
  Parliament passed the Coercive Acts in 1774
• Closed the Boston Harbor
• Canceled Massachusetts's charter
• Moved trials of colonial officials to Britain
• Quartering Act - required colonists to house and
  supply British soldiers

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The Intolerable ActCreated Change

• Colonists wrote pamphlets, editorials, and plays
  to critize the British governments actions.
• Colonial leaders in Boston tried to organize a
  complete boycott of British goods in the colonies

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Comprehension Questions

• Great Awakening - What caused this powerful surge
  of religious zeal?
• Are we having a Great Awakening now?
• What message did ministers of the Great Awakening
  preach to their listeners?
• How did the Great Awakening help bring different
  groups of people together?

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Works Cited

• The First Great Awakening by Christine Leigh
  Heyrmanhttp//www.nhc.rtp.nc.us8080/tserve/eight
  een/ekeyinfo/grawaken.htm
• The Great Awakening - Encarta http//encarta.msn.c
  om/find/Concise.asp?z1pg2ti761555596

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