Consequences of the GWFE
8Less Colonial Dependence on Britain
8Colonials have less respect for British military
8Colonial Leadership emerges
8Britain Faces Debt and Increased Costs of
Empire
New British Colonial Policy
8Better Enforcement of Navigation Acts
8New Regulations
8New Taxes
New British Colonial Policy
8Proclamation of 1763
8Pontiacs Rebellion
8Colonial Reaction
Sugar and Stamps
8The Sugar Act (1764)
8The American Revenue Act of 1764
8Revision of Molasses Act of 1733
8Cut Tax on Foreign Sugar and Molasses
8 Why?
Sugar and Stamps
The Stamp Act 1765
8Long a stamp tax in
Britain
8What did it tax
8Colonial Newspapers
8Legal Documents
8Playing cards
8Dice
The Stamp Act
8Announced March
1765
8Effective Nov.
1765
Colonial Response
8Immediate Protest
8“The Phrase”
8Stamp Act Congress
8NYC October 1765
8Read the Documents
Review Events Since 1763
8End of the Seven Years
War
8Proclamation of 1763
8Sugar Act (1764)
8Stamp Act (1765)
8Colonial Resistance
8Repeal of Stamp Act
(1766)
8Declaratory Act
The Second Imperial Crisis
8Townshend Acts (1767)
8External Taxes
8New Board of Customs Commissioners in Boston
8NY Assembly suspended
8Colonial Resistance
8No Taxation without …
8Boycott: Sons of Liberty
8Tensions with Customs Commissioners
The Boston Massacre (March 5,1770)
Consequences of Townshend Acts
8Colonial Position:
8No internal taxes
8No external taxes
8What Authority Does Parliament Have?
8Townshend Acts Repealed
8Except for tea
8Why
The Gaspee Incident (1772)
Providence, RI coast
Committees
of Correspondence
8
First in Boston, 1772
8
Purpose was formulating resistance and
informing other colonies
8
Spread to other colonies as relations
worsened
Tea Act (1773)
8 British East India Co
8In financial trouble
8Many members of
Parliament held shares
8Tea Act granted monopoly on
distribution of tea in colonies
(cheaper tea!
8 Lord North expected the
colonials to eagerly choose
the cheaper tea
(WRONG!).
Boston Tea Party (1773)
Tar and Feathering
The Coercive (Intolerable)
Acts, 1774
 Boston Port Act
 Massachusetts
Government Act
 2nd Quartering
Act
Lord North:
Colonies want
independence!
 Administration of
Justice Act
The Quebec Act (1774)
First Continental Congress (1774)
55 delegates from 12 colonies
6 Urged all colonies to
send aid to Mass
6 Adopted the “Suffolk
Resolves”
6 “The Association”
6 Declaration of Rights
and Grievances
6 Meet again in spring
First Continental Congress
8Denounced the Coercive Acts as intolerable and not
to be obeyed
8
8Renewed nonimportation agreements
The British Are Coming . . .
Paul Revere & William Dawes make their
midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of
approaching British soldiers.
The Shot Heard ’Round the World!
Lexington & Concord – April 19,1775
The Second Continental Congress
(1775)
Olive Branch Petition
Cause and Effect
Tea Act of 1773  Boston Tea Party
Boston Tea Party 
Coercive Acts
Coercive Acts
 1st Continental Congress
Coercive Acts
 Lexington and Concord
Lexington and Concord  2nd Continental
Congress
2nd Continental Congress 
…?
Thomas Paine: Common Sense
Declaration of Independence
(1776)
Declaration of Independence
Independence Hall
New
National Symbols