the road to revolution. warm up: use your knowledge of the 13 colonies to answer the following...
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Warm up:
Use your knowledge of the 13 colonies to answer the following questions for both photographs pictured below.What regions are
they located in? Describe the geography of each photo and address the type of economy each region would have?
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Directions:
For each slide, using your graphic organizer, tell– What the British did to the colonists– How the colonies responded to what
the British did.AND draw a picture that displays
close to each arrow what each Act was about. – Example: Stamp act, draw a picture of
a stamp.
The Proclamation Line of 1763
Colonist felt that England was attempting to control them
England wants to avoid Indian trouble
Colonies were angered over idea that they must pay for cost of war and British troops now
Salutary Neglect British have left the
colonies alone British try to enforce
laws and taxes after the French and Indian War without the consent of the colonies
British do not understand colonists are used to representative government
Colonies have formed own governments
Colonist are used to managing their own affairs with their elected representatives
“Taxation without representation”, colonist want to have a say in government through elected reps.
British Mercantilism
System were England controls colonial trade and taxes– Colonies provided raw materials for Britain
– If colonies received imports the goods had to arrive on British Ships
– Certain colonial goods were sold only to England, but not to other countries
– Colonies were to serve as a market for English manufactured goods
Navigation Acts 1650-1763
Restricted colonial trade, manufacturing and shipping to other countries
Colonists smuggle and disregard Acts
Salutary Neglect: Britain has allowed the colonies to prosper under their protection with little or no control
Sugar Act 1764
Tax placed on sugar and molasses because colonists are British subjects
Colonist protest and smuggle sugar and molasses
Quartering Act 1765
Required colonies to provide British troops with quarters and supplies
Colonial assemblies vote to refuse to supply British soldiers
Stamp Act 1765
Any item that was made of paper required a stamped tax payment to be made
Colonists argue “taxation with representation”, Stamp Act is repealed
Tea Act 1773
Tax on tea, it is a plan to bail out East India Tea company through tax on tea
Boston Tea Party and smuggling of tea
Intolerable Acts 1774
Response to Tea Party, assembly and town meetings dissolved, port of Boston closed,and British tried in England
Militias form, colonies send representatives to 1st Continental Congress meets and starts colonial boycott
Monarchy vs. Representative Government
In a monarchy the governing power lies with a king and those that he appoints to office
Parliament was the lawmaking body in England
Citizens elect their own representatives who will represent them in government
People create their government and have the right to make changes when they see fit (laws, elections)