Which of the following taxes would have made the
colonists the most upset?
Stamp Act
Tea Act
Intolerable Acts
Sugar Act
Declaratory Act
Explain your reasoning.
Colonial Resistance
What does resistance mean?
When does resistance turn into rebellion?
resistance
definition
example from unit
historical signficance
general significance
rebellion
definition
example from unit
historical signficance
general significance
Resistance: the refusal to accept or comply with
something; attempt to prevent something by action or
argument, armed or violent opposition, secret
organizations resisting authority especially in an
occupied country.
Rebellion: an act of violent conflict or open resistance
to an established government or ruler.
Colonial Resistance
Between 1763 and 1775 the tension between Great
Britain and the colonies grew.
The colonies began protesting the actions of the British
Government in several different ways
Sons of Liberty
Samuel Adams
Sons of Liberty: tar and feathering of tax collector
in response to the stamp act
Boston Massacre, 1770
- arguments between a group of colonists and british
soldiers escalated into an armed conflict.
- British troops opened fire on an angry crowd of
protestors in Boston.
- Five people died
Propaganda: a story giving only one side
in an argument.
How is Paul Revere’s picture of the Boston
Massacre an example of propaganda?
How did the Boston Massacre change
the way some colonists thought about
Great British rule?
Boston Tea Party,
Colonial Resistance
The Committees of
Correspondence
Sons and
Daughters of Liberty
Boston Massacre
Boycotts of British
Goods
The Boston Tea
Party
First Continental
Congress
Colonial Resistance
The Committees of
Correspondence
Sons and
Daughters of Liberty
Were formed in reaction the the Sugar Act so the colonies
could communicate with each other and unite themselves
against the British.
The sons of liberty organized resistance to the Stamp Act. This
group would attack home of tax collectors and protested in the
streets.
The daughters of liberty organized boycotts of British goods such
as textiles and tea.
Boston Massacre
British troops opened fire on an angry group of colonists who
were protesting in Boston killing five people. Paul Revere’s
depiction turned colonists against the British.
Boycotts of British
Goods
Many colonists refused to buy British goods to protest the
taxes. They refused to buy things such as paper, tea, and
other manufactured goods.
The Boston Tea
Party
In protest to the tea act, the sons of liberty dumped 342
chests of tea into Boston Harbor.
First Continental
Congress
Formed as a result of the Intolerable/Coercive Acts, the
colonies united to decide the best way to respond to British
actions.
Act
Date
Why Parliament Passed
the...
What the act said...
Colonial Response
Sugar Act
1764 Help pay for the French and
set duties on molasses and
Indian War and keep a standing sugar imported to the
army in North America.
colonies, changed colonial
courts, no juries, guilty until
proven innocent
upset because they thought taxes
were unfair, “no taxation without
representation,” formed the
Committees of Correspondence,
boycotts to hurt British
economically.
Stamp Act
1765 another way to tax colonies to
get money.
required colonists to pay for
an official stamp when they
bought paper items. Tax on
newspapers, pamphlets, and
playing cards
angry about being taxed directly.
protests formed immediately,
Sons of Liberty was formed, used
violence against tax collectors,
resolutions to Virginia House of
Burgess against Stamp Act.
Declaratory
Acts
1766 Parliament pressured to repeal
the Stamp Act and were upset
that colonists had challenged
their authority.
stated that Parliament had the worried colonist, argued it
power to make laws for the
stripped away their
colonies “in all cases
independence.
whatsoever”
Townshend
Acts
1767 another way to tax colonies to
get money.
Placed duties on glass, lead,
paints, paper, and tea.
Allowed tax collectors to
search for smuggled goods.
Tea Act
1773 Parliament repealed
gave East India Company right colonial merchants feared
Townshend Acts due to the
to sell tea directly to colonies. cheaper tea would put them out
pressure in the colonies which
of business, Boston Tea Party
resulted in the Boston Massacre
but kept the tax on tea.
Intolerable
Acts
1774 British Prime Minister was
furious when he heard about
the Boston Tea Party,
parliament wanted to punish
the colonies
closed Boston Harbor,
restructures Massachusetts
government, restricts town
meetings, royal officials
accused of crimes sent to
hated the new laws because they
took power away from colonial
governments, boycotting British
imports, Daughter of Liberty,
letters of protest
boycott British goods; First
Continental Congress Convenes
in September 1774.