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 Valley
Virginia fights back
Robert Dinwiddie
Fort Necessity
Impressments
Germ warfare
The Glorious Victory
William Pitt
General Wolfe
Attacking Quebec
Peace of Paris
Gains of the Seven Years’ War
Conflicts of interest
“British Canada”
Sugar islands
British rule in Canada
French
Indians
General Sir Jeffrey Amherst
Pontiac’s Rebellion
Proclamation 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 noncompliance
Vice-admiralty Courts
John Dickinson
Sons of Liberty
Boycotts and violence
Virginia resolves
Patrick Henry
The Stamp Act Congress
James Otis
Declaration of Rights and
Grievances
Lese-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 Duties
Charles Townshend
Mutiny Act (Quartering Act) 1765
Disbanding the New York assembly (army
hq)
Taxes on imports (external taxes)
From Eng.: lead, paint, paper & tea
Boycotts—”American goods” becomes fashionable
Massachusetts Assembly
Circular letter
Lord North
Repeal of the Townshend Duties