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Proclamation Act 1763

Proclamation line created a line from the Atlantic ocean to the Green line was for theAmericans, and the other part of the land was not for people to move west – it was forthe Indians.

They have to have licenses to trade with the Indians in that region


This is how the colonists made money and brought back furs and important items likethat


American’s could no purchase land


There wasn’t anyone who wasn’t offended by this

The Grenvile Program 1763-1766

George Grenville process the program of the british

Tax Program

Land was already heavily taxed


colonists didnt pay as much as the mother country


tax on things now


they started putting taxes on anything they could think of because they had to support the military


tey put taxation on at least 25% of tax was imposed on goods


tabacco, beer, linen, food, sugar

Response to the acts

Measure of industry- make more stuff- so they wouldnt have to import British stuff so they wont get taxed


come up with contest and prizes and everyone would create industries



response to the acts

frugality- funerals-how much money you want to spend on the funeral


so you can spend alot or a little


funerals were a big family deal


gloves were a symbolic thing for a funeral


funeral money was cut when taxes from britain came


very public with funerals march from the church around the streets ad then end up at cemetery

Constitutional Implications

Americans were not traded in the constitution because of Precedents


Britain does not have a constitution


people had to rebel when something went on



Post office act of !713

dealing with a given service


americans said this is our lan and u cant tac us for our land


they claimed it was thei land because they spilled the land to have it



Taxation without Representation



they had to be apart of the government system before they can tax them but they werent even apart of the govern.


british assume they were going to get away with this from the americans



Gordon Wood

most important history of the world


democracy 1st


Gentleman


wealth


education


talk and walk a specific way



Stamp Act

March 22 1765 bill came out


doesnt go into affect until nov 1


duty on stamps- paper product, marriage license, cards, stamps


commissioners are to make sure everything is getting taxed, legal


first direct tax to the people

Opposition

starts in March goes till decemeber


aug announces in boston that liberty died when the act went into effect


oct 31- boston meats they would not import any british goods as long as the stamp act was in effect


paphlets- skull and corss bones mark on items that people would put on to say "we will not pay the tax"



The Official Stamp Act Congress

Oct 19, 1765



Funerals for Liberty

ring church bells


would start march through the whole town and streets


hole in ground and they would put the liberty in the ground because liberty was dead


the box would shake and liberty would come out of the grave, because it was still alive, and she would arise and they would celebrate


about the community



Mock Executions

Stamp commissioners force the make the stamps happen


they would be executed pretend like


they would make a scare crow type person and identify it as a person they knew


they would hang them and put them up on being burned on the stake


scare them away from doing your job


some violence occured to a commissioner- house was attacked, harassment







Sons of Liberty

active groups with resistance to the British tax's

Samuel Adams

very solid biblical believer


very aggressive with hanging


threatening people



Impact of Opposition

Parliament repelled the act





Declaratory Act

Declared that they could still regulate the colonies but they will take away the tax

Townshend Program 1767-1770

Passed more tax programs


opposition- boycotting, passive resisentce

Boston Massacre

Soldiers in the streets


Quartering act- soldiers can stay in ones house


lost of reports on harassment of women


boston streets have no lamps at night


Private pain heard Garish and struck him in the ear and another one hits garish


word spread and 20 guys come and talk to the soldiers snowball is thrown


overall 11 ppl get hit right away


only 5 die


3 die instantly and two others within a few days



John Adams

Lawyers for the British


gave a fair defense for the British



Crisis of 1773 - Boston tea party

Tea act was passed in 1773


taxes were removed in the tea act


this was parliaments act of taking away from commodities that were already taxed


they got a lot of commotion


east india company sells tea at a lower price than any other company in american gave thema a monopoly for americans to buy tea in a reduced rate



boston tea act

nov 28 first ships cam in carrying tea in the harbor


had 28 days to enfore taxes


nov 29 sam adams has a meeting with 5,000 guys


post duty or loose product


americans dont want tea off the dock


dec 17 decide they will do somethin



boston tea act

dec 17 1773


get 40 guys dressed as native americans and board the ships and take out the tea and throw it in the water


3 ships and 111 chest of tea thrown out of the ship "the beaver"


228 chest were thrown over entirely


90,000 lbs of team total were thrown over in water


gets back to englan jan 27


huge expense to the british empire

coercive acts or intolerable acts

Boston port act- no products can be on it


mass gov act- shut down electe ousinc and stopped them from making laws in their community


administrative of justice act- trial held in englan


quatering act- soldies can go into houses take them feed them hoouse them



coercive acts or intolerable acts

quebec act- catholic religion in canada


quebec came into vermont and new hampshire it was instituting that americans were saying that was american colony zones catholic bishop was in place



coercive acts or intolerable acts Opposition act

neglecting englan


their blood and asestors died tring tocome over natural rights


put a british pope canada





Opposition

americans respond with verbal argument


still refuse to take on british goods



Prelude to War (Social structure) northern

very relgious


made up of families


patriarchal


based around communities


import society



Prelude to war (social structure) southern

not as many people


distance between rich and poor owning and working for the person owning the land


slavery system very racists slave system


based on the status of their mom


tabacco growing community


court days everyone wants to know whats going on


executuion building community


horse racing


exporting society



First continental congress

Sept 5


all but georgia sent representatives


meetings last till end of october


figure out how to unite 13 colonies to combad the british position

First continental congress

oct 14 adopted the declaration of rights


made an importation list



Moral program

1st congress establishes this: put viture into the people of america


because only they can gover society




northern people say god fearing people


southern people will say they arent caring debt they are virtuous

Theater (fcc)

Movement to expel theater


english message that threaten women in plays


the audience was corrupted through deception

Cockfighting

roosters fight each other


did breading


it would take place in a pit


fight till one dies


attach metal spurs on feet


use silver metal spurs


gambling would happen


cheating and dishonesty


made this illegal

Horse racing

Gambling


undermining value


people try to hurt other people


rich imposing difficult situtations on the poor


its about hae a status


made this illegal

Slavery (fcc)

they were dealing if slavery was creating less virtuous people


working all day


horrible weather

Limited authority (fcc)

continental congress did not ave government authority



Social ostracism (limited authority fcc)

if someone viloates being a virtuos person their name gets posted in the public square

Tar and feathers (limited authority fcc)

stripped the offender down to waste, paint tar, put feathers on them, walking around in a wagon around the community tilll u repent



Lexington and concord (lexington)

april 19 first shot of the revolutionary war


tensions are mounting- west of boston


british are tired of colonist ot obeying


they heard there was a large pile of gun powder 20 miles away

General Gage

general for british


we asked to go get the gun powder


he decides to take 16 companies in 2 divisions, he started to lead them and come up with a plan


to get the powder



Lexington and concord (paul revere)

april 16 rode to lexington to warn hancock that something is coming


he decided to stop at the church in boston and gage kepts all his plans secret


april 18 he starts moving



Lexington and concord ( lexington april 19)

soldiers left


show up early morning


tell eeryone to lay down their arms but americans say no


and a shot broke out and soldiers start firing


first british soldier shoot and american for being subordinate


8 americans were dead and 10 wounded


americans shot a horse but british mainly killed


americans flee british fired shots into the town



Concord

April 20


end up here trying to find gun powder


cant find it


started fire in the blacksmith shop


400 guys end up on the other side of the concord river


have some structure of organization


british decide to come after and made huge mistakes


sodliers cant swim, scared of water

concord on the bridge

all go on the bridge and americans pick them off as they hit the middle spot of the bridge


they continue to do this but make no progress


americans killed 3 wounded 9 and added on this number


the militia retreated and showed up in the morning and fired


and the british just lost its military structure

British retreat

6 miles from boston


brisith are leaving in packs of people and they try to run to boston


american militia men picked off red coasts ad they ran by in the woods


british getting wounded


menotomy: small town british soldiers went into house raped women and hurt people stole things and chopped off heads



British retreat out come

british has 273 dead and american has 95 men dead

First steps to independence

2nd continental congress- first gov. of the US



George washington (final steps to independence)

asked to be commande of army


chose him because of the french and indian war


he didnt want to be paid


was sent to boston to help organize military

Common sense (First steps to independence)

thoomas paine document


most rational thing for colonies to be an independent country


british doing this to americans and they dont know whats going on here


adults killing off young


gov is not necessary, born free society, get something to stop ppl from harming other people

Join or die

Ben Franklin in 1776



Republicanism

people voted fro a representative that represent the poeple


trunk hated society wealth and the poor


middling


growth


authority


concepts of enlghtenment



Thomas paines common sense

Window of opportunity- if british focus their military onto american as they policy it probablt is a little harder to stop


republicanism- idea of ideal of republicanisn, best form of gov. that theworld can come up with


no founder of american that would say lets move to democracy


good gov is bad, gov will always inade your life


sold all his items or copies half a million copys sold

Sam Adams

Hoped for a christian Sparta

State consitutions

were overlooked


may 10 1776


2nd continental congress used authority


moved state government


new go. were under the authorityof the ppl


seperation of powers and nills of rights


goernor and legislator


john adams says this was a huge step in making independece in one government

Declaration of indpendence

colonist believed there would be only one ultimate authority


had a hard time figuring out who it was


13 individual states declaring indpeneced in one gov

Jeffersons adds (D.O.I)

better writer


passed on july 2 1776


july 4 was the recognition



Enlightenment

Clergy


slavery engage with ppl who are slaves as people


slavery is part of the kings world


talk about freedom and liberation

Reigious Impliactions

love prophecies- 18 century



Millennial Hopes

catholics religion was known as the best


second beast gerorge grenvile


forcing the colonist to recieve stamps to sell goods


british become anit chirst the devil


the king became the outside christ

Theology Religious implications

the god says if you do this they do that


the cermins 1770s have a huge politcal agenda


very paritoic


new country under theology


americans liberty is gods cost


the revolutuion is signal