take five… what is the difference between an internal and external tax?
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Take Five…What is the difference between an
internal and external tax?
Years of Tumult 1763-1770
Salutary Neglect
Navigation acts, Prohibiting paper currency, Regulating trade
Robert Walpole’s attitude
Confusion and corruption of government
Attitude of colonists
Little Parliaments
Little England
Albany Plan
Benjamin Franklin
Take Five
The Wars Resume
Seven Years War ( French and Indian war)Conflict over the Ohio River ValleyVirginia fights back
Robert DinwiddieFort Necessity
Impressments Germ warfare
The “Cajuns”
The Glorious Victory
William PittGeneral Wolfe
Attacking QuebecPeace of Paris
Gains of the Seven Years’ WarConflicts of interest
“British Canada”Sugar islands
British rule in CanadaFrenchIndians
General Sir Jeffrey AmherstPontiac’s RebellionProclamation Line of 1763
Map of Ohio River Valley Region
The “Redcoats” in the Colonies
The Quartering Act
Establishing Parliamentary rule over the colonies
William Pitt and the English national debt
George Grenville (1763)
Changing the Molasses Act
American Revenue Act (Sugar Act of 1764)
New England’s reaction
Whigs
Elected assemblies
Trial by jury
Boycotting imports
The Currency Act (1764)
Post war economic depression
“Middling class” outrage
Distribution of pamphlets
Reduction of the tax on molasses
The Stamp Act of 1765
Acts of noncomplianceVice-admiralty Courts
John DickinsonSons of Liberty
Boycotts and violenceVirginia resolves
Patrick HenryThe Stamp Act Congress
James OtisDeclaration of Rights and
GrievancesLese-majeste
The Stamp Tax
The British Constitution
Ideals of the Magna Carta
Conflicts over representation
Colonial viewpoint
British viewpoint
“Virtual representation”
King George III
King George III
“Kings friends”
Dismissal of Grenville
Lord Rockingham (July 1765-1766)
Repeal of the Stamp Act
Declaratory Act
Protest back at home…
Lord Chatham (William Pitt)
Charles Townshend (1766-1767)
Townshend DutiesCharles Townshend
Mutiny Act (Quartering Act) 1765Disbanding the New York assembly (army
hq)Taxes on imports (external taxes)
From Eng.: lead, paint, paper & teaBoycotts—”American goods” becomes fashionable
Massachusetts AssemblyCircular letter
Lord NorthRepeal of the Townshend Duties
Riot to Rebellion 1770-1776
The colonies in 1763
Hostilities in the coloniesThe problem with the Redcoats
Working classes and competitionThe role of alcohol
The Boston Massacre (March 5, 1770)British Captain Thomas Prescott“Liberty boys”
Paul RevereSamuel AdamsJohn Adams
Crispus AttucksThe Trial of the Century…
Internal disputesThe Regulators
The Boston Massacre
Crispus Attucks
Paul Revere
Samuel Adams
John Adams
The March toward War
Leaders of the rebellion
James Otis
Writs of assistance
Patrick Henry
“Give me liberty or give me death”
Samuel Adams
Patrick Henry
The Tea Act of 1773
The Gaspee incident (1772)
East India Co.
Mercy Otis Warren
“The Daughters of Liberty”
Boston Tea Party (Dec. 16, 1773)
Thomas Hutchinson
The Intolerable Acts
Closing Boston ports
A new governor and new policy
A new government
Quartering Act of 1774
Quebec Act of 1774
Turning toward revolutionCommittees of Correspondence
Continental Congress
Philadelphia
The delegates
The Suffolk Resolves
Loyalty to the King
Raising an army (the militia)
“Minutemen”
The Midnight Ride
Paul Revere
First Blows
Lexington and Concord
Paul Revere, William Dawes & Samuel Prescott
Sniping
British retreat
Another intolerable act
Restriction of the Grand Banks
First Blows (con’t)
Battle of Bunker Hill (Breed’s Hill)
General Howe
British victory
Fort Ticonderoga
Green mountain boys
Ethan Allen
Benedict Arnold
General Sir William Howe
Battle of Fort Ticonderoga
Second Continental Congress
Finding a General
George Washington
“Declaration of the Cause & Necessity of Taking Up Arms”
Common Sense
Thomas Paine
The Constitutional Convention
General George Washington
Voting for IndependenceThe Declaration of Independence
The CommitteeThomas Jefferson, Roger Sherman,
John Adams, Robert Livingston, Benjamin Franklin
The issue of slaverySigning the declaration of independence
John HancockIncreasing risk
What kind of men were the signers?
24 were lawyers and judges
11 were merchants
9 were farmers & large plantation owners
All were well educated
Who said Freedom was Free?What happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of
Independence? 5 were captured by the British as traitors and tortured before they died12 had their homes ransacked and burned2 lost their sons during the war2 had their sons captured during the war9 fought and died in the war