american history coach kirkwood 1 road to revolution taxes and boycotts
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American History
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Road To Revolution
Taxes and Boycotts
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Objectives
• How the British government hoped to end its money problems after the French and Indian War
• Why the colonists objected to the Stamp Act and the Townshend Acts
• How the British government reacted to the Boston Tea Party
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Trouble on the Frontier
• British now forced to defend frontier– All the way to the Mississippi
• Indians attack Fort Detroit in 1763– Known as Pontiac Rebellion
• Quit fighting after hearing of the Treaty of Paris– British react with the Proclamation of 1763
• Forbade settlers from settling west of the Appalachian mountains
• British build fort to enforce the proclamation• Angers settlers
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Money Problems
• French and Indian War cost Britain a lot of money
• Felt the colonist should pay for it• Parliament passes Sugar Act of 1764
– Taxed cheaper sugar coming to America• Colonist refuse to pay
• Quartering Act of 1765– Colonist had to pay for British soldiers living in
the colonies
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Stamp Act(1 of 2)
• Stamp Act of 1765– Taxed everyday items
• Colonists felt Parliament had gone too far
• Believed it was “Taxation with no representation”
• Leads to the formation of the Sons of Liberty
• Also results in Boycotts
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• Stamp Act Congress– Meets in 1765, with 9 delegates from the colonies– Send a petition to the King
• Parliament repels the Stamp Act in 1766– No one in America was following it– Costing British merchants lots of money
Stamp Act(2 of 2)
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Townshend Acts
• Passed in 1767– Taxed paint, glass, paper, tea, ect.
• Allowed writs of assistance– blank search warrants
• Americans Boycott– Sign non-importation agreements– Refused to use British goods
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Boston Massacre
• Tensions flare
• March 5, 1770, a riot breaks out in Boston– British soldiers fire on the mob killing many
• Because of this, Parliament will repel the Townshend Acts
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Tea Act
• British East India Company was losing money– Traded tea
• Parliament enacts the Tea Act– Designed to help the company– Carried tea on their own ships– Had their own sellers– Took business away from colonists
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Boston Tea Party
• Fall of 1773
• Sons of Liberty board ships in Boston harbor
• Dump tea into the bay
• Know as the Boston tea party
• Would increase tensions between colonist and Britain
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Discussion
• What were the cause and effect of the sugar act?
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Assignment
• Read 196—200
• Questions pg. 200
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What you have learned today
• How the British government hoped to end its money problems after the French and Indian War
• Why the colonists objected to the Stamp Act and the Townshend Acts
• How the British government reacted to the Boston Tea Party