The Stirrings of Rebellion

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The Stirrings of Rebellion

• Chapter 4 Section 1

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Mercantilism Economic System based on
colonialism

• American colonies expected to
• Supply Britain with raw materials
• Furnish ships, seaman and trade to bolster
  strength of the Royal Navy
• Provide a market for British manufactured goods
• Refrain from exporting woolen cloth

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George Grenville

• Financial expert appointed by King George III to
  deal with Englands financial problems
• His revenue raising policies angered American
  colonists
• Sugar Act was first British law intended to raise
  revenue in the colonies

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One change in colonial policy initiated by
Grenville that helped precipitate the American
Revolution involved

• compelling the American colonists to shoulder
  some of the financial costs of the empire

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1765 Stamp Act

• To raise money to support military forces needed
  for colonial defense
• Convinced many colonists that the British were
  trying to take away their historic liberty
• Generated the most protest in the colonies
• First DIRECT TAX

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No Taxation without Representation

• Colonist rejection of Parliaments power to levy
  revenue raising taxes on the colonies
• Objection to the Stamp Act on the grounds that
  the colonists did not have representation in
  Parliament
• Objected because Parliament passed the tax , not
  the colonists

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Virtual Representation

• Validated Englands taxation policies on the
  colonies
• Every member of Parliament represented all
  British subjects
• Claimed the colonists were represented in
  Parliament even if they did not think so
• The power of Parliament over the empire was
  absolute

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Colonial Protest to the Stamp Act

• convening a colonial congress to request repeal
  of the act
• a colonial boycott against British goods
•  violence in several colonial towns
•  wearing homemade woolen clothes

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Declaratory Act

• Followed repeal of Stamp Act
• asserted Parliament's absolute power over the
  colonies

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Townshend Acts

• INDIRECT TAX on trade goods arriving in American
  ports
• Unlike the Stamp Act which was a direct tax
• Colonists took this act less seriously because it
  was lighter and and indirect
• Opposition to these Acts caused Britain to send
  troops to Boston to restore law and order red
  coats

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Actions taken by the colonists that helped them
unite

• the Stamp Act Congress
• Non-importation agreements
• spinning bees
• the making and wearing of homemade woolen goods

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Townshend Acts Repealed

• Except a tax on tea retained to keep alive the
  principle of parliamentary taxation

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Committees of Correspondence

• Local colonial committees organized to exchange
  ideas and information on resisting British
  policies
• Organized by pamphleteer Samuel Adams

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1773 Tea Act

• Colonists suspected it was a trick to get them to
  violate their no taxation without
  representation principle
• Led to the Boston Tea Party

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Boston Tea Party

• Not the only such protest to occur
• Not an isolated incident
• The protests were not directed only at the
  British East India Company

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John Adams

• a Massachusetts politician who opposed the
  moderates solution to the imperial crisis at the
  First Continental Congress

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Chronological Order

• Stamp Act
• Repeal of Stamp Act
• Declaratory Act
• Townshend Acts
• Boston Massacre
• Tea Act
• Boston Tea Party
• Intolerable Acts
• Meeting of the First Continental Congress
• Clash at Lexington and Concord