8-2.2 Summarize the response of South
Carolina to events leading to the
American Revolution, including the
Stamp Act, the Tea Acts, and the Sons
of Liberty.
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The Road to Revolution…
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1. Events leading to the American Revolution
a) British crown and Parliament impose taxes
on colonies to pay for F/I War.
b) Colonists believed was right of their
colonial assemblies to impose taxes
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The Stamp Act
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1. Most important tax imposed by Parliament
(affected all colonies)
2. Placed a tax/duty on paper
a)
legal documents, playing cards and newspapers
colonists paid directly.
b) Taxes prior to this indirect taxes, paid by the
merchants.
3. Incensed colonists protested “No taxation
without representation”
a) Colonists no representative in Parliament
b) no colonial voice in Parliament
The Stamp Act
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4 Colonists wanted own colonial assemblies
to impose taxes to continue.
a) Organized Stamp Act Congress
b) boycott on British goods
a) led to the repeal of the Stamp Act.
c) Organized the Sons and Daughters of Liberty in
order to protest British taxes.
The Stamp Act was passed in
Parliament
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Protesting against the Stamp Act
Sons and Daughters of Liberty
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Sons and Daughters of Liberty
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1. The Sons of Liberty enforced boycotts through
persuasion and intimidation.
2. The Daughters of Liberty engaged in spinning
bees (spun own thread and yarn) and refused
to buy British products, finding substitutes
instead.
British Impose More Taxes
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1. Indirect tax through the Townshend duties
a) Import taxes on paint, paper, tea, and a variety
of other goods.
b) Colonists unwilling to accept import tax
a)
designed to collect revenue, not regulate trade.
c) Colonists boycotted and Townshend duties
were repealed except for the tax on tea.
The Tea Act
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1. The Tea Act was not a tax
a) gave British East India Company exclusive
rights to sell tea in colonies
1) Parliament wanted to help company
2) Parliament—legislature of Great Britain
2. Colonists boycotting tea because of tax
imposed under Townshend Acts.
The Tea Act
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3. The Sons of Liberty feared availability of
cheap tea would threaten effectiveness of
boycott.
4. In Boston they threw tea overboard. (Boston
Tea Party)
a) Resulted in passage of the Intolerable Acts.
b) Colonists sent delegates to a Continental
Congress in order to address the problem of the
Intolerable Acts.
The Tea Act
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The Continental Congress
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1. 1774, representatives from across South
Carolina met in Charles Town
a) to elect representatives to the Continental
Congress to be held in Philadelphia.
b) also established a General Committee of 99 to
govern the colony instead of the royal governor.
The Continental Congress
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2. Under leadership of Henry Middleton of SC
a) was elected its president
b) established a non-importation and non-exportation
agreement (a colony wide prohibition against any
trade with Great Britain)
c) SC delegates successfully argued rice was essential
to survival of colony, trade in rice was allowed.
“The shot heard ‘round the world”
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1. After Lexington and Concord, Second
Continental Congress met in Philadelphia.
a) Lexington and Concord—1st military
engagement of American Revolutionary War