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Chapter 4: Tyranny is Tyranny

Chapter 4: Tyranny is Tyranny. By: Aileen Lee ChS 245 OL-14004. Introduction. Through a series of event, the American Revolution was powered by a force of angry people, discontent with the governing power.

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Chapter 4: Tyranny is Tyranny

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  1. Chapter 4: Tyranny is Tyranny

    By: Aileen Lee ChS 245 OL-14004
  2. Introduction Through a series of event, the American Revolution was powered by a force of angry people, discontent with the governing power. Many events such as the Boston Tea Party, Boston Massacre, and the Stamp Act were one of many of those driving forces. These eventually lead to a war between a superpower nation and a small colonial state.
  3. Rebellions Due to the many taxes imposed on the colonies, the colonists began to get angry, rising up in revolt. “Starting Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia… there had been eighteen uprisings aimed at overthrowing colonial governments” (Zinn 59) “There had also been six black rebellions, from South Carolina to New York, and forty riots of various origins” (Zinn 59) There had been about 64 riots and rebellions.
  4. Class Warfare “By the early 1770s, the top 5 percent of Boston's taxpayers controlled 49% of the city's taxable assets. In Philadelphia and New York too, wealth was more and more concentrated. Court-recorded wills showed that by 1750 the wealthiest people in the cities were leaving 20,000” (Zinn 60). “The lower classes began to use the town meeting to vent their grievances” (Zinn 60). With the British government taking control over the colonies, they began to impose unjust taxes.
  5. Stamp Act of 1765 “The Stamp Act of 1765 inspired widespread antagonism. This print satirizes the repeal of the act in 1766 as the death of the favorite female child, Little Miss America. Parliament would again attempt to force unpopular taxation measures on the American colonies in the late 1760s, leading to a steady deterioration in British-American relations that culminated in the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775.”
  6. Stamp Act of 1765 It portrays “a funeral procession composed of supporters of the act carrying a small coffin containing the remains of the bill toward an open vault. The vault has been prepared for the burial of all unjust acts that would alienate Englishmen.” This image became the most satirical in this time period.
  7. Boston Tea Party In the Boston Tea Party of December 1773, the Boston Committee of Correspondence, formed a year before to organize anti-British actions, "controlled crowd action against the tea from the start," Dirk Hoerder says. The Tea Party led to the Coercive Acts by Parliament, virtually establishing martial law in Massachusetts, dissolving the colonial government, closing the port in Boston, and sending in troops. Still, town meetings and mass meetings rose in opposition.
  8. Boston Tea Party
  9. Boston Massacre “On March 5, 1770, grievances of ropemakers against British soldiers taking their jobs led to a fight. A crowd gathered in front of the customhouse and began provoking the soldiers, who fired and killed first Crispus Attucks, a mulatto worker, then others. This became known as the Boston Massacre” (Zinn 67).
  10. Boston Massacre “The "Massacre" served as anti-British propaganda for Boston radicals and elsewhere heightened American fears of standing armies.” It was one of the first conflicts that shed blood. This led to many more bloody skirmishes until the outbreak of war.
  11. The Declaration of Independence In 1774, an illegal body called the Continental Congress will eventually become “the forerunner of a future independent government” Right after the clash in Lexington and Concord, the group began writing up the Declaration of Independence. Written by Thomas Jefferson, it was adopted by the Congress on July 2, and officially proclaimed on July 4, 1776.
  12. The Declaration of Independence Famous painting of Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson writing the Declaration of Independence.
  13. Thomas Paine Born in Thetford, England on January 29, 1737 He was critical in the development of America’s government. “In 1776, he published Common Sense, a strong defense of American Independence from England” The Founding Fathers used the ideas in this document to outline the Declaration of Independence and became the basis of democracy.
  14. Thomas Paine: Common Sense Paine’s Common Sense states, “Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil…” (Zinn 64).
  15. Works Cited "Boston Massacre Historical Society." Boston Massacre Historical Society. N.p., 2008. Web. 03 Apr. 2014. <http://www.bostonmassacre.net/plot/detailed2.htm>. Sarudy, Barbara Wells. "It's About Time." : Tea, Inflammatory Teapots, & the Stamp Act in the British American Colonies. N.p., 31 Dec. 2011. Web. 03 Apr. 2014. <http://bjws.blogspot.com/2011/11/tea-stamp-act-in-british-american.html>. "Thomas Paine." Ushistory.org. Independence Hall Association, n.d. Web. 02 Apr. 2014. <http://www.ushistory.org/paine/>. Wilson, Benjamin. "The Repeal, Or The Funeral Of Miss Ame-Stamp." The Colonial Williamsburg. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Apr. 2014. <http://www.history.org/history/teaching/tchcrpc1.cfm>. Zinn, Howard. A People's History of the United States: 1492-2001. New York: HarperCollins, 1999. Print.
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