A-14
Gp-4
Tensions Rise Between the
Colonies and Great Britain
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 When considering the historical documents that have shaped the history of our
country, the Declaration of Independence is likely to be one of the first to come to
mind.
 A number of events led to the drafting of this document.
 In an effort to deal with a huge war debt,
King George III of Great Britain and the
British Parliament enacted a number of
Sugar act of 1764
laws that imposed taxes on the colonists.
 These included the Sugar Act of 1764,
which taxed sugar as well as coffee and
cloth.
 The Stamp Act of 1765 required colonists
to pay for a British stamp on any official
document.
Stamp act of 1765
 These acts angered the colonists because
they had no say in the passing of the laws.
 They believed that their own elected
representatives, rather than Parliament,
should make decisions regarding taxes in
the colonies.
 In order to convince the British
government to repeal the Stamp Act,
many colonists boycotted British goods.
Many colonists boycotted
British goods
 Although the boycott worked and the Stamp
Act was repealed the following year,
Parliament enacted new taxes.
 The Townshend Acts taxed items imported
from Britain to the colonies, such as lead,
glass, paper, paint, and tea.
 This caused so much anger among the
colonists that they threatened violence
against British tax officials.
 As a result, Britain sent soldiers to protect
these officials from the colonists, an act that
frustrated the colonists even further.
 Again, the taxed items were boycotted and
the colonists substituted American-made
goods for British imports.
 Britain eventually repealed many of the taxes
but retained the tax on tea as a way of
asserting Britain’s right to tax the colonists.
Tax on tea
 In 1770 in Boston, an argument between a group of colonists and a British
soldier grew to include several soldiers.
 Shots were fired, killing five colonists in what was called the Boston
Massacre.
 This event greatly increased the colonists’ distrust and resentment of the
British government.
the Boston Massacre
 In 1773 the Tea Act gave a British
company the right to sell low-priced
tea to the colonists.
 The price of the tea included a tax to
which the colonists had not consented.
 Again, the colonists were angered by
what they called “taxation without
representation.”
taxation without representation
 A group of colonists dumped the tea into Boston Harbor, an event now
known as the Boston Tea Party.
 In response, the British Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts.
 These laws were intended to punish the colonists by closing the port of
Boston and bringing the government of Massachusetts under tighter
British control.
The Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts
Exercise
01
According to the graph, in which
year was the value of goods
imported from Britain greatest?
02
A. 1700
B. 1775
C. 1776
D. 1740
Between which years did the value
of colonial imports from Britain
increase the most?
A. 1720–1740
B. 1740–1760
C. 1760–1775
D. 1775–1776
Thank you for your attention
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