Don’t
forget
the rug
analogy!!
• Slot 2 Title = Rug
Under your Feet
• What is the historical
connection between
these policies and
US1? How could they
have been
implemented better?
• Write on the
sheet…skip slot 3
• Read George
Grenville’s Speech
– Context
– Text
– Subtext
• Analyze Grenville’s
speech from the Point
of View of…
– Great Britain
– Colonists
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• Slot 4…1754 vs 1763
– Split your slot into 4
parts,  so you can draw
arrows to connect
answers for GB and the
Colonists
• Compare and Contrast
the ESP climate in Great
Britain and the Colonies
in 1754 and in 1763…
– There are differences
from one year to the
other…
– What are they? How did
they happen?
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• Analyze the causes of the Revolutionary War
• Evaluate the effects the British Laws on the colonies
• Critique the colonists’ responses to the various British
Laws
• Analyze the evolution of Americans’ viewpoints of
themselves and GB before the Revolution
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• Make $$$ for GB
from the colonies to
pay off the war debt
– GB following what
economic practice?
– Don’t squeeze too
much though…
why?
• Control the new land
you earned… where
and why? (2)
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• King George III 
– Wanted to increase
his power (especially
w/ Parliament)
– Psychologically and
Intellectually unfit to
rule (mental illness)
– Immature & insecure
6
• British Prime Ministers = 
– George Grenville = …
– Charles Watson-Wentworth
– Pitt the Elder!!! = Ill…distant…apathetic? No control over his
Cabinet led to Exchequer Charles Townshend’s mistake
– Augustus FitzRoy
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– Frederick North = Tory (no sympathy) and harsh
• What was wrong with
the colonies?
I’m a New
Yawkah!!
– No unity as
“Americans”
• Little Class Unity too
(Upper, Middle, Lower)
• What do the colonists
need then?
– Something/someone
they can all be mad at
together…
I’m a
Virginian!!
I’m a
Georgian!!
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• Their Colonial Assemblies/Legislatures
• Whig Ideology and Virtuous countrymen
Until 1754, we
practically ruled
ourselves…
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• Every person
(or country)
has their
breaking
point...
• From 1763………………….…to 1775, tension
between “Americans” & the British government
escalates, until our breaking point hits!!!!!!
An
English
worker
made
about £40
versus the
colonist
who made
about £60
for the
same job.
Colonial
merchants
made
£180.
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• What “problem”
pushes GB to make
it?
We didn’t
care…some
crossed
anyway!
– GB wants some
peace with Native
Americans again
• What did it say?
• Colonists’ reaction?
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• Sugar Act, why make it if
you are GB?
– Mercantilism
• Sugar Act story
– Colonists getting
molasses/sugar from 2
different islands
American
traders are
smuggling
me into the
colonies!
a. British = $$$$$$$$$
b. Foreign = $$$$$$$$$$$$
– Who were the colonists
going to?
• Why?
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• Lower the Duty on
_________ sugar
– Then what happens?
• British = $$$$$$$$$
• Foreign = $$$$$$$$$$$$
– Then what will colonial
consumers buy? Why
• Who is
now…
just 2
options?
– What else must GB also
do to make sure there are
only 2 options?
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• Enforce those Navigation Acts you made long ago
• Sugar Act? 
– Eh…It wasn’t a
tax…no prices
were increased
• Navigation Act?
– Who is mad?
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What is it?
Why do it? Think
about our POV...
Colonists
reactions..
what did we
think you
guys were
violating?
17
• What was it?
• Why do it?
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• Who did it affect?
– Everyone!! (Tavern
owners, Lawyers,
Newspaper Printers)
• Why be mad? (4
reasons)
• GB makes 10x the
tax $$$ from the
colonies from 1763
to 1765
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• Virginia House of
Burgesses complains to GB
– Led by Patrick Henry 
• Stamp Act Congress meets
in NY in October 1765
– petitioned King & Parliament
– What did they write?
• We are still loyal to GB…but…
• “No Taxation without
Representation…”
• Who can/should tax the
colonists?
• Condemned the Stamp & Sugar
Acts as unconstitutional… hmm
• What plan looks good now?
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On Reflection it now seems probable, that if the foregoing Plan or some
thing like it, had been adopted and carried into Execution, the
subsequent Separation of the Colonies from the Mother Country might
not so soon have happened, nor the Mischiefs suffered on both sides
have occurred, perhaps during another Century. For the Colonies, if so
united, would have really been, as they then thought themselves,
sufficient to their own Defence, and being trusted with it, as by the Plan,
an Army from Britain, for that purpose would have been unnecessary:
The Pretences for framing the Stamp-Act would then not have existed,
nor the other Projects for drawing a Revenue from America to Britain by
Acts of Parliament, which were the Cause of the Breach, and attended
with such terrible Expence of
Blood and Treasure: so that the
different Parts of the Empire might
still have remained in Peace and
Union. But the Fate of this Plan
was singular…it was totally
rejected.
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-Feb. 9, 1789. Dr. Franklin.
• East Coast riots in 1765
• Sons of Liberty
– attacked stamp agents
and burned stamps
• sale of stamps halts after
the riots
– major riots in Boston
– destroyed Lt. Gov
Thomas Hutchinson’s
house
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• Graded Discussion using
three sides of the classroom
– Bulletin Board = S of L do not
fit the terrorist profile
– Poster Wall = S of L do fit the
terrorist profile
– Middle Desks = answer is
somewhere in the middle
• Sit on whichever side that you
feel fits your beliefs
– Then try to defend your position
• You can move during the
discussion if you are
persuaded
• One speaker at a time 
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• Colonists hurt GB’s economy!
– Many stopped buying British
goods (AKA)
– Intimidation was used by
Sons of Liberty
• Who got hurt? 
– asked Parliament to repeal
Stamp Act
– While England’s gov made
$$$, England’s merchants
lost $$$
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• March 1766, Stamp Act
repealed (Grenville OUT)
– English mad that
Parliament backed
off the colonists
• GB concurrently passed #9
– GB: Parliament rules the
colonies just like it rules
England and can make
laws on the colonists
• Did colonists care 
– Yes and No
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• Colonists have hated
 for years and defy
it more and more…
but which colonies
(same trouble
makers in the F&I
War) & how?
– MA & NY
assemblies voted to
not give supplies to
troops (can they?)
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• PM Pitt the Elder =
,
so Charles Townshend 
ran things more
• 5 Acts were part of 
– NY Assembly disbanded…
– New duties on goods
imported from GB…
• lead, paint, paper, tea
• $$$ would pay for…
• Response by colonists =
– Power of the Purse has
belonged to and should
still belong to...
– Internal or External Taxes
are unconstitutional!!!
External
Taxes…
so the
colonists
shouldn’t
be upset,
right?
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• Boycott the
goods from GB
again
• Boycott started
by what colony?
– Will other
colonial
assemblies back
them up?
• What do we
see happening
to the
colonies?
YES!!
Massachusetts
Assembly, of
course!
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• Who does GB
crack down
on?
– MA (Boston)
– Many more
Redcoats 
occupy the
city
– Crackdown
on smuggling
works well
• What is next?
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Somehow [Mass Shootings]
has become routine. The
reporting is routine. My
response here at this
podium ends up being
routine, the conversation in
the aftermath of it…We have
become numb to this…
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After WWII we
tried to impose
our development
model on whole
Eastern
European
nations, and this
ended in nothing
good, this wasn't
good, and we've
got to admit
it…By the way,
this is what the
United States is
doing across the
entire world now.
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The rich and large
corporations get
richer, the CEOs
earn huge
compensation
packages, and
when things get
bad, don't worry;
Uncle Sam and the
American taxpayers
are here to bail you
out. But when you
are in trouble, well,
we just can't afford
to help you, if you
are in the working
class or middle
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class of this country.
This is one
viewpoint
of the
Boston
Massacre
But this is
the one
that
became
popular
What are
we going to
say that we
witnessed?
What are
we going to
say that we
witnessed?
Is this what
really
happened?
Who was
to blame?
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37
• More Redcoats in Boston =
increased tension
• Redcoats don’t get paid
well…
– Fights on the docks between
two sides days earlier
It goes
back
to
Locke!
• March 5, 1770
– Who started it?
– British protect customs house
– Redcoats hit with snowballs,
ice, rocks
– Redcoats fire into crowd
– 5 killed
• Why is this a big deal?
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• 5 Victims =
– For what?
• Paul Revere engraving is
popular…does what?
• What happens to the guilty
Redcoats?
– This guy  defends them 
• How do you think he is viewed?
– Soldiers only charged with
manslaughter (go back home)
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• Townshend  has been dead since 1767
• New PM Lord North  repeals all of the Townshend Acts
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except the Tea Tax
• Sam Adams
– Politician, Publicist, Brewer,
Distant Cousin of John
Adams
– Vocal (and…) critic of British
policy GB =  USA = 
• Helps form the long-term
MA “Committee(s) of
Correspondence” in 1772
– coordinate resistance
– Most colonies join up by 1774
– becomes a network to keep
the spirit of dissent alive
– Shadow govs that had more
power than colonial
legislatures by 1774!!
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– To Be Continued!!
• Who did it help? (déjà vu of
Sugar Act)
– British East India Company
• Their tea would be cheapest
• Who did it hurt?
– American tea merchants
42
• They are similar acts…they’re just made 9 yrs apart
• Why are the colonists mad at one and not the other?
43
Tried to prevent
the company’s
ships from docking
Boston Tea
Party – Dec
16, 1773
Colonists
boycott
tea first
44
45
What is
the big
deal
here?
Quebec
Act
brings
up an
old fear
of the
colonists
46
• Committees of Corr. meet
up at the First Continental
Congress
– held Sept 5, 1774
• Who shows?
– 56 delegates
– Most Big Names 
– No GA delegates
• A few resolutions are made
1. Continue boycott
2. Each colony make militias…
3. Send a letter to the King 
4. Meet again in one year
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• The foundation of English liberty, and of all free
government, is a right in the people to participate in
their legislative council: and as the English colonists
are not represented, and from their local and other
circumstances, cannot properly be represented in the
British parliament, they are entitled to a free and
exclusive power of legislation in their several
provincial legislatures, where their right of
representation can alone be preserved, in all cases of
taxation and internal polity, subject only to the
negative of their sovereign, in such manner as has
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been heretofore used and accustomed:
• But, from the necessity of the case, and a regard to
the mutual interest of both countries, we cheerfully
consent to the operation of such acts of the British
parliament, as are (in good faith), restrained to the
regulation of our external commerce, for the purpose
of securing the commercial advantages of the whole
empire to the mother country, and the commercial
benefits of its respective members; excluding every
idea of taxation internal or external, for raising a
revenue on the subjects, in America, without their
consent.”
b. What do the members of the First Continental
Congress want? What is the tone of the
passage?
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• Parliament tried
to accommodate!!
– tried to remove
some laws
– Parliament’s
changes not good
enough for the 1st
Cont Congress
– By this time, the
conflict became
more than words
anyway…
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• Says…
–New England is
in a state of
rebellion
–“Blows must
decide”
• What next?
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• It is ……………………………………1775, and
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“Americans” have reached their breaking point