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ROAD TO REVOLUTIONWHY DID THE COLONISTS BREAK-UP WITH ENGLAND?
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SALUTARY NEGLECT
• The colonies were left alone to govern themselves.
• Created a sense of individuality
• A people of British origin, but an American flavor.
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MERCANTILISM• A country should sell more goods to other countries than it buys.
• Government controls economics.
• Raw Materials to Britain
• Colonies market for British manufacturing
• Great, as long as YOU’RE the one making $$$!
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NAVIGATION ACTS: 1650-1670S
• Colonies only trade w/Mother country.
• Can only use British ships for import/export.
• Colonist used smuggling to get around it.
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WRITS OF ASSISTANCE - (EARLY 1760S)
• General search warrants
• Meant that if they thought you were breaking the law, they could search your home/property at any time for smuggled goods, etc.
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FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR 1754-1763
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FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR 1754-1763 • Britain wins
• Gains all land east of the Mississippi (also, Canada)
• Expensive
• debt increased from 75 to 137 million pounds
• Only colonial power left
• Colonies had fought for Britain, but unified as Americans
• Causes problems with the colonies
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PROCLAMATION OF 1763
• Banned ALL settlement west of the Appalachian Mts.
• Settlers want to move westward
• Afraid of conflict with Native Americans
• No money!
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SUGAR & STAMP ACTS• Have to pay debts
• Colonies had lower taxes anyway…
• Raised taxes
• sugar, textiles, wine, coffee, indigo
• All documents, newspapers, playing cards, etc.
• 1st time —> direct tax, raise revenue
• Colonial merchants protested the taxes
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• Quarter = To house…
• Saves Britain $$$, keeps army there
• Requires colonists keep British troops in their homes
QUARTERING OF SOLDIERS
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• How do you think the colonists felt? Why?
• How would you have felt? Why?
• What do you think the colonists do in response?
• Why did Britain impose these taxes/acts?
• What do you think Britain did in response to the colonists?
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COLONIAL REACTION
• “No Taxation w/o Representation”
• Why should we be taxed if we don’t elect anyone to speak for us in Parliament?
• Boycotted British Goods
• refuse to buy/use
• Created groups that opposed English rule
• Wanted independence!
• Sons of Liberty
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BRITISH RESPONSE
• Repealed the Stamp Act, kept the rest, made some more…