1-2: American Revolution and its Consequences (P.8-16)
"ÃÂ Growing Crisis in 13 Colonies
"ÃÂ Own Identity & Way of Life
"X Separated from Britain by Atlantic
"X Long traditions of governing themselves through elected assemblies
"X 1770s, thought of Americans instead of British subjects
"X Others were loyal and felt close ties to Britain
"ÃÂ Why the British were Mad
"X Military Effort
ÃÂé Few colonists volunteered to fight during 7 yrs war
ÃÂé Regular army did most of the fighting
"X Illegal Trade
ÃÂé Merchants in Boston traded illegally w/ French in Canada & Acadia
"ÃÂ Intolerable Acts - British Solutions
"X Navigation Acts
ÃÂé Required trade btwn Britain & colonies to be on British ships
ÃÂé Royal Navy was used to stop smuggling & illegal trade
* Smugglers tried w/o trial-by-jury (which the colonists were used to)
* Restricting Colonial trade & denying them basic right of trial-by-jury
"X Stamp Act of 1765
ÃÂé Stamps were attached to legal documents & newspapers to certify tax payment
ÃÂé 1st tax levied directly by Parliament
ÃÂé 1766, act repealed by opposition
"X Quartering Act of 1765
ÃÂé Use homes to provide room & board for British soldiers
"X Townshend Acts of 1767
ÃÂé Pay duties on tea, glass, paints, paper imported from Britain
ÃÂé Colonial leaders urged boycott
* Parts of the act were repealed
* Import tax remained
"X Growing Opposition
ÃÂé "taxation without representation is tyranny
* stamp act & Townshend acts
* colonists had no representation in Parliament
ÃÂé Boston Massacre of 1770
* Colonists die in clash w/ British troops over Townshend acts
ÃÂé Boston Tea Party of 1773
* Threw bales of tea from British ships into Boston Harbour
* Reactions
"ÃÂ Close Boston Harbour & suspended Massachusetts Assembly
"ÃÂ Quartering Act of 1774...