Increasing tensions
New England responses to British control
Sugar ACt
Quartering Act 1765
• This law required colonies to house, feed, and provide
supplies to British troops.
• Most troops found alternative housing near ports.
The Stamp act
Stamp act Repealed
Declaratory Act of
1766
• Parliament had the absolute power to make laws and
changes to the colonial government
Townshend acts
• the Revenue Act of 1767
• new duties on paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea that were imported
into the colonies (tax imports so external not internal tax)
• the Indemnity Act
• Cheap tea for East India Company, writs of assistance, colonists
taxed by Revenue Act
• the Commissioners of Customs Act
• The American Customs Board
• the Vice Admiralty Court Act
• help customs officials prosecute smugglers
• the New York Restraining Act
• suspended the power of the Assembly until it complied with the
Quartering Act
Reactions
• Boycotts
• Non importation
• Riots
• Boston
Sam adams’ circular
letter
• the Townshend Acts were unconstitutional because the
colony of Massachusetts was not represented in
Parliament
• Great Britain occupies Boston
• The colonies support Boston
Repeal and
repercussions
• Boston Massacre occurs same day that Townshend
Acts are Repealed
• Britain continues to send more troops to the colonies
to exert authority
• Tax on tea remains in effect
Tea act
• England lowered the cost of tea, so it could trade with
the world, but…
• They increased the tax.
• This led to the Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts: 1774
• Boston Port Bill
• Massachusetts Government Act
• Administration of Justice Act
• Quartering Act
• Quebec Act
Britain’s taxes
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• THE FATAL FIFTH OF MARCH, 1770, CAN NEVER BE
FORGOTTEN. The horrors of THAT DREADFUL NIGHT are
but too deeply impressed on our hearts. Language is too feeble to
paint the emotions of our souls, when our streets were stained
with the BLOOD OF OUR BRETHERN; when our ears were
wounded by the groans of the dying, and our eyes were tormented
with the sight of the mangled bodies of the dead. When our
alarmed imagination presented to our view our houses wrapt in
flames, our children subjected to the barbarous caprice of the
raging soldiery; our beauteous virgins exposed to all the insolence
of unbridled passion; our virtuous wives, endeared to us by every
tender tie, falling a sacrifice to worse than brutal violence, and
perhaps, like the famed Lucretia, distracted with anguish and
despair, ending their wretched lives by their own fair hands...– Dr.
Joseph Warren, "Oration commemorating the anniversary of the
Boston Massacre," (March 5, 1772)
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