TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION CHAPTER 5 SECTION 1 PROCLAMATION

TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION CHAPTER 5 SECTION 1

PROCLAMATION OF 1763 WE N WO THE R WA IT IS OUR LAND, AND WE ‘RE TAKING IT WE’LL LIVE WHERE WE PLEASE WE L I WHE VE R WAN E WE T BAN SETTLEMENT WEST OF THE APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS COLONIST FELT THAT IT VIOLATED THEIR RIGHTS AS BRITISH SUBJECTS

THIS TAX IS BITTER SUGAR ACT 1764 NO MORE SUGAR FOR OUR TEA; DO AWAY WITH THIS TAX IS OUR PLEA NO MOLASSES FOR OUR RUM, STOP TAXATION YOU SCUM TAXED SUGAR AS IT ENTERED THE COLONIES. INCOME WAS TO BE USED TO HELP PAY FOR THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR IT RESULTED IN ANTI-BRITISH FEELINGS AND CAUSED COLONIST TO SMUGGLE EVEN MORE

STICK IT TO THE BRITISH, DON’T BUY THEIR GOODS LETS LI THE S CK T ACT-B AMP U AMER Y ICAN BOYCOTT BRITISH GOODS! NO W WE W AY PAY ONT STAMP ACT 1765 The tax was repealed due to colonial protest • In 1765 Parliament passed taxes on all printed goods (newspapers, wills, playing cards, and pamphlets). It required a stamp on all paper products. • These Taxes effected everyone in the colonies. It was a direct tax.

QUARTERING ACT 1765 BE GONE GET OUT OF OUR HOME FIND SOME WHERE ELSE TO STAY HEY YOU CAN NOT STAY • THIS ACT REQUIRED COLONIST TO HOUSE BRITISH TROOPS IN THEIR HOMES IT RESULTED IN ANTIBRITISH FEELINGS AND CAUSED THE COLONIST TO RESENT THE PRESENCE OF TROOPS.

DECLARATORY ACT 1766 WE RULE OURSELVES NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION STAY AWAY WE MAKE OUR OWN WAY • DID NOT TAX ANY THING • SAID PARLIAMENT HAD THE RIGHT TO TAX THE COLONIST • IT SAID THAT PARLIAMENT HAD TOTAL AUTHORITY OVER THE COLONIST • COLONIST MUST OBEY PARLIAMENT’S LAWS

TOWNSHEND DUTIES 1767 E PRIM IS E R H T ISTE MIN TER IS SIN KEEP OUT OF OUR HOUSE, LOOKING FOR STUFF IS ILLEGAL YOUR W VIOLA RITS TE OU R RIGHT S • Taxed paint, paper, tea, glass and lead • To enforce these taxes, and to find smuggled goods, officers used writs of assistance. • These legal documents allowed customs officers to make searches without saying what they were looking for.

BOSTON MASSACRE MARCH 5, 1770 E P TH E O T S C E LEN VIO OVE TH REM PS O TRO YOUR PRES EN IS LET CE HAL 5 COLONIST KILLED BY BRITISH SOLIDER MOB THREATEN A SOLIDER GUARDING A CUSTOM HOUSE SNOWBALL ROCKS AND OYSTER SHELLS THROWN GUNS GO OFF GO HOME LEAVE US ALONE SOLDIERS CHARGED WITH MURDER- DEFENDED BY JOHN ADAMS

TEA ACT 1773 TAXES TEA v. SETS UP A MONOPOLY FOR TEA v. ONLY TEA FROM THE EAST INDIA COMPANY CAN BE BOUGHT OR SOLD BOSTON TEA PARTY

COERCIVE ACT 1774 RTY E B I L REBELLION IS ON THE RISE WE W NOT ILL OBEY BRITISH RESPONSE TO THE BOSTON TEA PARTY 1. CLOSED THE PORT OF BOSTON 2. SENT MORE TROOPS TO AMERICA 3. CLOSED THE MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL ASSEMBLY 4. MARTIAL LAWS IN BOSTON LED TO THE BEGINNING OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS