The Road to Revolution

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The Road to Revolution

• Salutary Neglect
• British Mercantilism
• British Economic Policies in the Colonies

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Use your knowledge of the 13 colonies to answer
the following questions for both photographs
pictured below.What regions are they located in?
Describe the geography of each photo and address
the type of economy each region would have?
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The Proclamation Line of 1763

• Colonist felt that England was attempting to
  control them
• England wants to avoid Indian trouble
• Colonies were angered over idea that they must
  pay for cost of war and British troops now

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Salutary Neglect

• British have left the colonies alone
• British try to enforce laws and taxes after the
  French and Indian War without the consent of the
  colonies
• British do not understand colonists are used to
  representative government

• Colonies have formed own governments
• Colonist are used to managing their own affairs
  with their elected representatives
• Taxation without representation, colonist want
  to have a say in government through elected reps.

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British Mercantilism

• System were England controls colonial trade and
  taxes
• Colonies provided raw materials for Britain
• If colonies received imports the goods had to
  arrive on British Ships
• Certain colonial goods were sold only to England,
  but not to other countries
• Colonies were to serve as a market for English
  manufactured goods

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Navigation Acts 1650-1763

• Restricted colonial trade, manufacturing and
  shipping to other countries
• Colonists smuggle and disregard Acts
• Salutary Neglect Britain has allowed the
  colonies to prosper under their protection with
  little or no control

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Sugar Act 1764

• Tax placed on sugar and molasses because
  colonists are British subjects
• Colonist protest and smuggle sugar and molasses

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Quartering Act 1765

• Required colonies to provide British troops with
  quarters and supplies
• Colonial assemblies vote to refuse to supply
  British soldiers

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Stamp Act 1765

• Any item that was made of paper required a
  stamped tax payment to be made
• Colonists argue taxation without
  representation, Stamp Act is repealed

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Townshend Acts 1767

• Tax on glass, lead, paper, paint and tea
• Colonist smuggle goods, boycott British goods,
  and fight with British troops

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Writs of Assistance

• Legal document that allowed British soldiers to
  search anywhere they thought smugglers might be
  hiding goods.

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Boston Massacre March 5,1770

• A mob of colonists began to harass British
  troops.
• The British troops opened fire on the colonists
  5 colonists died

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Tea Act 1773

• Tax on tea, it is a plan to bail out East India
  Tea company through tax on tea
• Colonists viewed this as another time the British
  acted without consulting them.
• Boston Tea Party by Sons of Liberty where they
  dumped tea into the harbor and smuggling of tea

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Intolerable Acts 1774

• Response to Tea Party, assembly and town meetings
  dissolved, port of Boston closed,and British
  tried in England
• Militias form, colonies send representatives to
  1st Continental Congress meets and starts
  colonial boycott

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Monarchy vs. Representative Government

• In a monarchy the governing power lies with a
  king and those that he appoints to office
• Parliament was the lawmaking body in England

• Citizens elect their own representatives who will
  represent them in government
• People create their government and have the right
  to make changes when they see fit (laws,
  elections)