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What are the changes? Why do they happen? What is the effect?

Changes in British Policy. What are the changes? Why do they happen? What is the effect?. Change 1: Britain exerts more control!. The Proclamation of 1763- prevented the colonists from settling beyond the Appalachian Mountains. Protect native land Why were the colonists upset by this?

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What are the changes? Why do they happen? What is the effect?

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  1. Changes in British Policy What are the changes? Why do they happen? What is the effect?

  2. Change 1: Britain exerts more control! • The Proclamation of 1763- prevented the colonists from settling beyond the Appalachian Mountains. • Protect native land • Why were the colonists upset by this? • The war started over the land and the colonists believed they had earned the right to settle there.

  3. Change 2: Britain strictly enforces the rules! • Navigation Acts- controlled who the colonists traded with. • All goods must go through Britain before being traded with anyone else. • The colonists turn to smuggling goods • Writs of assistants- general search warrants • Britain could search the cargo of any ship without cause • Admiralty courts • Colonists caught smuggling were brought before these courts where there was no jury and the judges were corrupt.

  4. Change 3: Britain needs money and decides to tax the colonies. • Sugar Act (1764)- tariff on products containing sugar. • Rum and molasses are the main products taxed • Tariff- tax on imports • Currency Act- prevented colonists from printing paper money. • Colonist James Otis wrote that the taxes violated the colonists rights as British citizens.

  5. Change 3: Britain needs money and decides to tax the colonies. • Stamp Act (1765)- • Direct tax on all paper products (licenses, cards, newspapers, etc.) • Tax officials must affix the stamp in person. • Tax went to pay for the British troops stationed in America. • Quartering Act- if the colonists do not pay the tax then British troops can be stationed in the homes of private citizens.

  6. Colonists respond by… • Calling for “no taxation without” representation.” • Establishing the Sons of Liberty • Mob violence on tax officials • Tax officials must affix the stamp in person. • Tax went to pay for the British troops stationed in America. • Tar and Feather, burn homes, etc • The Stamp Act Congress • Call for non-importation agreements- refuse to buy products from Britain. (Economic Pressure) • Were these protests effective?

  7. In 1766 British companies who were hurting because of non-importation urged Parliament to end the Stamp Act. • Parliament officially repealed the act the same year. • Why was repealing the act a good thing? • Why was repealing the act a bad thing?

  8. Change 3: Britain needs money and decides to tax the colonies. • Townshend Acts • Tax on imported goods • Lead • Paint • tea • Money from taxes pays for royal governors • Colonists wanted to choose their own governors • Colonists continue to protest

  9. Change 3: Britain needs money and decides to tax the colonies. • Britain- sends troops to Boston to enforce the Townshend Acts • Colonists- Sons and Daughters of Liberty work to prevent taxes from being collected • Boycotts continue

  10. BOSTON MASSACRE • March 5, 1770 • Colonists surround soldiers • Soldiers fire into crowd • 5 colonists killed (Crispus Attucks)

  11. Response • Britain repeals Townshend Acts • Soldiers are put on trial • Only one found guilty

  12. 1773: • Committees of Correspondence • Letters between colonies to keep up resistance to British taxation policy • Begins in Massachusetts and spreads to other colonies • Tea Act • Grants a monopoly of the tea trade to the East India company • A small tax was placed on tea coming into the colonies

  13. Responses to Tea Act • Maryland- • Burn ships • South Carolina • Steal ship • New York and Pennsylvania • Refuse to let ships in port

  14. Responses to Tea Act • Boston, Massachusetts- December 1773 • Boston Tea Party • Colonists dress up as Native Americans and dump over 300 chests of tea in the harbor in protest of tea act.

  15. Britain responds to Tea Party by: • Issuing the Intolerable Acts (Coercive) • Closes port of Boston • Forced Massachusetts to pay for tea destroyed • Passing the Quebec Act • Gives Canada territory into the Ohio Valley • Recognized their Catholic Faith

  16. Colonists • Send Aid to Massachusetts • Fly flags at half mast • Call the First Continental Congress to meet in Philadelphia, PA. (Sept 1775) • 12 of 13 colonies represented • Ask the king and parliament to repeal Intolerable acts • Call for a complete boycott of British products until acts are repealed. • Will meet a year later to check success of boycott

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