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South Carolina End-of-Course Examination in US History INTENSIVE REVIEW USHC 1.2 Analyze the early development of representative government and political rights in the American colonies, including the influence of the British political system and the rule of law as written in the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights, and the conflict between the colonial legislatures and the British Parliament over the right to tax that resulted in the American Revolutionary War.

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South Carolina End-of-Course Examination in US History

INTENSIVE

REVIEWUSHC 1.2Analyze the early development of representative government and political rights in the American colonies, including the influence of the British political system and the rule of law as written in the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights, and the conflict between the colonial legislatures and the British Parliament over the right to tax that resulted in the American Revolutionary War.

A Long Train

of Abuses

and UsurpationsThe Causes of the American Revolution

The French and Indian War 1754-63

WarsCostMoney

British National Debt

1754 1763 1764£0

£20,000,000

£40,000,000

£60,000,000

£80,000,000

£100,000,000

£120,000,000

£140,000,000

Following the French and Indian War

Cost of

Quartering

Troopsin the

colonies

Parliament Taxes the Colonies

1. Sugar Act (1764)2. Stamp Act (1765)3. Townshend Acts (1767)

Smuggling

A Serious Problem

Photo Credit: Mary Harrsch

The Sugar ActIMPORT Tax

on Foreign Sugar

1764

ADMIRALTY COURTS

Jury Trials

The Stamp ActINTERNAL Tax

on legal documents

1765

MASS RESISTANCE

BoycottsMob Violence

NO

TAXATION

WITHOUT REPRESENTATION

Resistance Movement(s)

Sons of Liberty

IntimidationMass Protests

Homespun Fabric

Daughters of Liberty

Reduced dependence

on British textiles

The Stamp ActINTERNAL Tax

on legal documents

1765

MASS RESISTANCE

BoycottsMob ViolenceREPEALE

D

Parliament’s Not Done

Townshend ActsTax on Imports

1767

Paul Revere's engraving of British troops landing in Boston in 1768.

Confrontation between

British Troops and a

Rowdy Mob

Boston Massacre

1770

Townshend ActsTax on Imports

1767

REPEALEDWith one

exception...

Just because we don’t tax... doesn’t mean that

we can’t!

The Chain

of Events• Tea Act• Boston Tea Party• Intolerable Acts• Lexington &

Concord

Leading to the Revolution

Photo Credit: Darwin Bell

ParliamentGrants a

Monopolyto a BritishCompany

The Tea Act 1773

Photo Credit: John-Morgan

Boston Tea Party

1773

Intolerable Acts

1774

MARTIAL

LAW

OBJECTIVE:Seize the Arsenal

Lexington & Concord

1775