Conflicts that Created Change
In Colonial America
By Angela Daley
Conflicts that Created Change
In Colonial America
1740-The Great Awakening
1764 - Navigation Acts
1764 - Molasses and Sugar Act
1765 - Stamp Act
1773 - The Tea Act
1773 - Boston Tea Party
1774 - Intolerable Acts
The Great Awakening
• revitalization of religious piety that swept
through the American colonies between the
1730s and the 1770s
• view that being truly
religious meant trusting the
heart rather than the head,
prizing feeling more than
thinking, and relying on
biblical revelation rather than
human reason.
Men of the Great Awakening
• Reverend William
Tennent, established
a seminary to train
clergymen it is better
known today as
Princeton University.
Men of the Great Awakening
• Jonathan Edwards evoked terrifying
images of the corruption of human nature
in his famous description of the sinner as a
loathsome spider suspended by a slender
thread over a pit of seething brimstone in
his best known sermon, "Sinners in the
Hands of an Angry God."
Conflicts from the Great
Awakening Created Change
• In communities the Great Awakening
produced tension and rivalry, so that
religious harmony that had existed was
disrupted.
•The Great Awakening was a conflict
that dissembled church communities
and then re-joined them within a new
sense of unity.
End of Salutary Neglect
• The Navigation Acts of the 17th century
allowed colonists only to produce agricultural
goods and raw materials.
• The acts reserved the profitable enterprises such
as manufacturing goods and providing
commercial services to British residents.
Conflict from the End of Salutary Neglect
Created Change
• In 1732 Parliament made this
ban more specific,
prohibiting Americans from
marketing colonial-made
hats.
The Molasses and Sugar Act
• placed a high tariff on molasses
imported into the mainland colonies
from the West Indies.
• These taxes discouraged colonists living
in port cities from distilling their own
rum
• Then in 1750, Parliament extended the
ban on colonial manufactures to
produce products such as plows, axes,
and skillets.
Conflict from the Molasses and
Sugar Act created Change
• These taxes discouraged colonists
living in port cities from distilling
their own rum
• Then in 1750, Parliament
extended the ban on colonial
manufactures to produce products
such as plows, axes, and skillets.
The Stamp Act
•
used as a means of raising revenue in the
American colonies.
• The Stamp Act required all legal
documents, licenses, commercial contracts,
newspapers, pamphlets, and playing cards
to carry a tax stamp.
• intended to raise money to defray the cost
of maintaining the military defenses of the
colonies.
Conflict from the Stamp Act
Created Change
• Passed without debate, it aroused
widespread opposition among the
colonists, who argued that because
they were not represented in
Parliament, they could not legally be
taxed without their consent.
The Tea Act
• The Tea Act of 1773 maintained the tax on tea
and gave the English East IndiaTea Company a
monopoly on the export of tea.
• The company's tea ships ran into trouble in
American ports, most notably in Boston, where
on December 16, 1773, colonials dressed as
Native Americans dumped a shipload of tea
into the harbor.
The Tea Act Created Change
• Colonists used boycotts and propaganda, held
the Boston Tea Party, and destroyed tea
shipments in some colonies.
• British reacted with the Intolerable Acts
The Boston Tea Party
• On the evening of December 16, a group of
Bostonians, instigated by the American patriot
Samuel Adams and many of them disguised as
Native Americans, boarded the vessels and
emptied the tea into Boston Harbor.
• When the government of Boston refused to pay for
the tea, the British closed the port.
Boston Tea Party Created
Change
• Britain responded to this Boston Tea Party with the
Intolerable Acts of 1774, which closed the port of Boston
until Bostonians paid for the tea.
• The acts also permitted the British army to quarter its
troops in civilian households, allowed British soldiers
accused of crimes while on duty in America to be tried in
Britain or in another colony, and revised the
Massachusetts Charter to abolish its elected legislature.
The Intolerable Act
• As punishment for the Boston Tea Party,
Parliament passed the Coercive Acts in
1774
• Closed the Boston Harbor
• Canceled Massachusetts's charter
• Moved trials of colonial officials to Britain
• Quartering Act - required colonists to
house and supply British soldiers
The Intolerable Act
Created Change
• Colonists wrote pamphlets, editorials, and
plays to critize the British government’s
actions.
• Colonial leaders in Boston tried to
organize a complete boycott of British
goods in the colonies
Comprehension
Questions
• Great Awakening - What caused this
powerful surge of religious zeal?
• Are we having a Great Awakening now?
• What message did ministers of the Great
Awakening preach to their listeners?
• How did the Great Awakening help bring
different groups of people together?
Works Cited
• The First Great Awakening by Christine Leigh Heyrman
http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080/tserve/eighteen/ekeyinfo/grawa
ken.htm
• The Great Awakening - Encarta
http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?z=1&pg=2&ti=7615
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Teacher Power Points
The Great
Awakening
Chapter 5, Section 4
Key Terms:
revivals
Great Awakening