Today: Take Home FRQ Due
 Thurs (per 3) or Fri (per 2): Important
Dates Quiz
 9/30 – Peer Blog Responses Due
 10/1 – October Blog Questions Posted
 10/4 (per 3) or 10/5 (per 2) : Chapter 8
Reading Quiz
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Is a revolution justified or is it treason?
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Why would someone choose not to be a
part of their government?
› How would they go about leaving?
› What are the pros and cons?
What were the similarities and
differences between the colonists and
their English counterparts?
 Was England’s mercantilist policies a
help or hindrance to the American
colonies?
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Very little hierarchy
Property ownership
Political participation
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Why was there such a difference?
Social Status
Supreme
Property limited to
the wealthy
Parliament and King
controlled affairs
Distance weakened authority
 Republicanism developed
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› citizens give up self interests for the common
good.
› Opposed to hierarchical and authoritarian
institutions
Common culture (although quickly
changing)
 Radical Whigs in England
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› Made attacks on use of patronage and
bribes by king’s ministers
› Warned citizens to be on guard for possible
corruption.
Money is Power!
 Expand Empire!
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How did England gain their money?
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Mercantilism – wealth is power
 Measured by silver and gold
 Must export more than import
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Navigation law of 1650
 All goods must be transported on British ships
 Enumerated articles could be exported only to
England
 Currency shortage
 Colonists bought more than they sold to Britain
 Barter and trade
 Paper money – led to depreciation
How did mercantilist restrictions hamper
the development of Virginia?
 What British restrictions are viewed as
most galling? Why were they tolerated
as long as they were?
 What were the pros and cons of Britain’s
mercantilist policies?
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Britain felt colonists responsible for war
debt
 Navigation Laws (1763)
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› British trade only
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Sugar Act of 1764
› Molasses Act 1733
› 3 pence tax on sugar and molasses
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Quartering Act of 1765
› Required colonies to provide food and
housing to British troops
George Greenville: Author of the Stamp
Act
King George III
legal documents, permits, commercial
contracts, newspapers, wills, pamphlets,
and playing cards in the colonies
required to carry a tax stamp.
 “No taxation, without representation!”
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9 colonies met in NYC
 14 point declaration of rights and
grievances formulated by John Dickinson
 Pledged loyalty to the king
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Publications
 Andrew Oliver and Hutchinson effigies
hung
 Destroyed property of tax collectors
 No one to enforce it, when it became
law
 Government offices shut down
 Boycott on British Goods
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Existed in every colony
› Samuel Adams: head of Boston Chapter
Mainly workers and tradesmen
 Boston Gazette spread news and
opinion
 Main objective to get stamp collectors
to resign
 Enforcement of Non-Importation
agreements
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Organizer of the Committees of
Correspondence
› Movement toward independence
Led the reaction to the Stamp Act and
Boston Tea Party
 Served in both Continental Congresses
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› Too much of an agitator to be a good
“Drivenpolitician
from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the
right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to
this happy country as their last asylum.” Samuel Adams (1776)
Repealed the Stamp Act in 1766
 Passed the Declaratory Act in 1766
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› Stated Parliament had the right to make all
laws for the colonies
› Predecessor for future acts
“By one Act they have suspended the powers of one American
legislature, & by another have declared they may legislate for us
themselves in all cases whatsoever. These two acts alone form a basis
broad enough whereon to erect a despotism of unlimited extent.”
Thomas Jefferson
Sponsored by Charles Townshend
 Purpose to raise revenues for customs
enforcement and colonial officers
 Import duties on glass, lead, paint,
paper, and tea.
 Protested with petitions, boycotting, and
tar and feathering
 All but tea tax repealed in 1770
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9/30 – Peer Blog Responses Due
 10/1 – October Blog Questions Posted
 10/4 (per 3) or 10/5 (per 2) - Chapter 8
Reading Quiz
 10/6 – 1776 Questions Due
 10/11 – Unit 1 Test (Chapters 1-8); Notes
Due for Chapters 7 and 8
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Started because of the failure to pay
taxes
 Townspeople threw snowballs
 A struck private fired into the crowd
 11 injured and 5 killed
 British removed from Boston
 Crispus Attucks
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Monopoly given to failing EIC
 Ships not able to enter the bay, most
turned away
 Hutchinson would not allow ship to leave
Boston until unloaded
 Sons of Liberty, dressed as Indians, led
attack on ship, dumping 45 tons of tea
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Prime Minister Lord North, author of the Boston Port Bill, forces the ”Intolerable
Acts,” or tea, down the throat of America, a vulnerable Indian woman whose arms are
restrained by Lord Chief Justice Mansfield, while Lord Sandwich, a notorious
womanizer, pins down her feet and peers up her skirt. Behind them, Mother Britannia
weeps helplessly. This British cartoon was quickly copied and distributed by Paul
Revere
Boston Port Act – closed Boston Harbor until
dumped tea was paid for
 Massachusetts Government Act – revoked
charter and forbid town meetings
 Quartering Act – required colonists to
provide housing for soldiers
 Quebec Act – expanded territory
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› No representative government
› Restored French law
› Allowed practice of Catholicism
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First Continental Congress in 1774
› Declaration of Rights
› Only Georgia missing
› Creation of the Association: complete non-
importation and non-consumption
› Violent to resisters
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First military engagement (April 19th,1775)
British given orders to capture and destroy
supplies
Wanted to capture Sam Adams and
Hancock
Stocks and men both moved location
700 British led by Thomas Gage defeated 75
minutemen at Lexington and forced them
to Concord
Minutemen were warned and defeated
Redcoats at Concord and forced them
back to Boston