The Changing Relationship: British Action  Colonial Reaction

1. The Changing Relationship:British Action  Colonial Reaction Unit 2: Becoming America Mrs. Baker RUSH

2. Quick Review… • How did the colonists attempt to solve the problem of French expansion in the Ohio River Valley? • What were the major outcomes of the French and Indian War? • How did the relationship change between the colonists and Britain?

3. The Stamp Act, 1765 British Action Colonial Reaction • Required that revenue stamps be placed on most printed paper in colonies, including all legal documents, newspapers, pamphlets, and advertisements. • Raise funds to support British troops in the colonies • “No taxation without representation” • Colonial Protests • Sons of Liberty: secret society who harassed agents involved in collection of stamps • Boycotts • Stamp Act Congress • Declaration of Rights and Grievances Stamp Act Repealed

4. The Declaratory Act, 1766 British Action Colonial Reaction • Asserted that Parliament had the right to tax and make laws for the colonies “in all cases whatsoever.” • No reaction • Unaware of act being created • Too excited over the repeal of the Stamp Act What does this mean for the colonists?

5. The Townshend Acts, 1767 British Action Colonial Reaction • New duties collected on colonial imports of tea, glass, lead, paint and paper • Revenues raised from duties were to be used to pay crown officials in the colonies • No longer used to pay for debt and quartering of troops • Applied to items imported into colonies from Britain • Organized resistance • Daughters of Liberty • Wealthy women made their own goods instead of purchasing from England • Boycotts • Protests • Harassment of collecting agents

6. Boston Massacre, March 1770 • Constant presence of British soldiers in Boston heightened tensions. • Clash broke out between colonists and soldiers where 5 colonists were killed. • Marked a major shift in colonial and British relationship. • Emphasized the action reaction relationship

7. The Tea Act British Action Colonial Reaction • Legal tea would be sold in America only by the East India Company’s designated agents • Creates a British East India Company monopoly • Britain sends tea to 4 major cities. • 3 out of 4 cities do not receive or purchase the tea but… • Problems in Boston • Colonists dump tea abroad a British ship into Boston Harbor. • Act of protest against the newly imposed tea act

8. The Boston Tea Party

9. The Intolerable Acts British Action Colonial Reaction • Coercive Acts (1774) • The Port Act: closed the Port of Boston. • The Massachusetts Government Act: reduced the power of the Massachusetts legislature while increasing the power of the royal governor • The Administration of Justice Act: allowed royal officials accused of crimes to be tried in England instead of in the colonies. • Quartering Act: British troops to be quartered in private homes in all colonies. • Quebec Act (1774) • British government passed law organizing the Canadian lands gained from France. • First Continental Congress • September, 1774 • Philadelphia, PA • 55 delegates from 12 colonies. • No Georgia • Defended colonial rights to self-govern • Petitioned King for improvement in relationship but if did not occur… • Reconvene in May 1775.

10. Summary:The Flow of Revolution