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Chapter 07 - The Road to Revolution 1763-1775

Deep Roots ot Revolution

 

  • 2 main ideas of government had started to form in the colonists' minds
    - Republicanism and "radical" Whigs

 

Mercantilism and Colonial Grievances

 

  • Every colony, besides Georgia, wasn't formally founded by the British government
  • Mercantilism - the British theory that justified their control over the colonies
  • The Navigation Law - 1650, the first law Parliament passed to regulate the colonies

 

Merits and Menace of Mercantilism

 

  • Benefits - tobacco planters and other colonies, protection of the English navy
  • Burdens -  liabilities, colonies felt used

 

 The Stamp Tax Uproar

 

  • Prime Minister George Grenville - the main man that enforced the Navigation Laws
  • 1763 - Navigation Law
  • 1764 - Sugar Act
    -raising the tax revenue on sugar
  • 1765 - Quartering Act
    -required to provide food and lodging to British soliders, even private homes
  • 1765 - Stamp Act
    -tax on info. papers, legal documents etc
 

Forced Repeal of the Stamp Act

 

  • The Parliament was forced to repeal the Stamp Act in 1766 becuase of the continuous rebellions of the colonies

 

The Townshend Tea Tax and the Boston "Massacre"

  • 1767 - "Champagne Charley" Townshend passed teh Townshend Acts

    -taxed on glass, white lead, paper, paints and, most importantly, tea

  • The British sent troops over to the colonies in 1768 that were "drunk"
  • March 5, 1770 - A rebellion was started in Boston against the "red coats"
  • *1772 - Samuel Adams formed "Committees of Correspondence" in New York ---> spread spirit of resistance
  • *1773 - Virginia formed the House of Burgessed
  • *1773 - British East India Company was about to go out of business and was going to see tea to the colonies cheap but with a hidden tax ---> infruated colonists
  • *1773 December 16 -  The Boston Tea Part

 

The "Intolerable Acts"

-1774 -  named by the colonists, the intolerable acts were a British made series of acts designed to mock America

 

  • Boston Port Act
    - closing of the Boston harbor till all damages of the Boston Tea Party were paid for   
  • Quartering Act
    -the power to lodge British troops anywhere, even private colonist homes
  •  Quebec Act
    -gave the French their Catholic religion adn old customs
     

Bloodshed

  • 1774 - forming of the Continental Congress

    ---> 55 men, most significant action was the creation of The Association

  • The Association - complete boycott of British goods
  • 1775 April - British troops were sent to Lexington and Concord
    --->resulting the Lexington Massacre

 

Imperial Strength and Weakness

  • Strength - population, professional army, wealth
  • Weakness - soliders were needed at other areas around the globe besides the colonies, distance, lacking leaders, lacking food
     
     
     

 *1781 - The Articles of Confederation were written

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US History
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