THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE This document established that
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE • This document established that the colonies were breaking away from Great Britain to form their own government. • This is radical! You don’t just break away from your home country. • The men who signed this document were committing treason! • If captured during the war they would have been executed. • If America had lost the war they would have been tried and executed.
THE ROYAL PROCLAMATION OF 1763 6. The Treaty of Paris is the treaty that ended the French and Indian wars. 7. The ceded territory is the Ohio Valley. Its borders are the Appliachian Mountains and the Mississippi River. 8. The three reasons were: the British already has problems administering the settled lands east of the Applichaians, secondly the French settlers may nit just give up their land peacefully, and finally some Native American tribes were still fighting. 9. The Proclimation of 1763 declared the border of the 13 colonies to be Appliachia. 10. The colonists felt that was unfair as they fiught in the French and Indian war and had died to have that land. Also some colonies were already being established. 11. This law was not followed.
THE STAMP ACT CONTROVERSY 12. Great Britian seemed to be exercising direct influence over colonial life. 13. Writs of assistance are general search warrants which allowed British customs officers to search colonial ships. They are upset because violators did not get a trial, they were at the mercy of the British admiralty. 14. They felt the colonists should pay their fair share of taxes. (Each oerson decide fair on their own. ) 15. The colonists felt it was unfair of them to pay for troops there to watch them, Yes. Britian had paid more in money, but the colonists had paid in sweat and blood. 16. The colonists argument was they had no representation in Parliament and so the taxes were unfair. 17. It taxed official documents needing an offcial stamp? It upset the colonists bcause all official documents needed to be on this type of paper. 18. The Quartering Act forced those living in the colonists to provide food and shelter to British Troops. 19. The colonists boycotted British goods and due to the finicial strain on British merchants.
THE BOSTON PATRIOTS 20. Boston seems to have more patriots because they had a lot of shipping. 21. He was an outspoken opponent of British taxation policies and he fought legal battles against those policies. 22. Samuel Adams was a strong supporter of American life and led the Boston town meeting that led to the Boston Tea Party. 23. John Adams was also a string supporter of American life and was one of five who drafted the Declaration of Independance. 24. John Hancock was a smuggler who got around British taxes and was a strong supporter of Independence. 25. Paul Revere was a supporter of American rights who also helped publish anti. British propaganda.
THE TOWNSHEND ACTS 26. The first issue is Parliament did not want colonists to think that ultimate authority was with colonial legislatures so they issued the Declaratory Act. 27. Their issue was with the power that the Declartory Act gave the British government. 28. Townshend persuaded colonists to tax the colonies on glass, paper, lead and tea. 29. The taxes would be used to pay for colonial governors salary. It upset the colonists because they no longer had any leverage over the govenors. 30. Townshend also established the American Board of Customs Commissioners and he suspended the New York legislature. 31. The colonists responded by boycotting British goods once again. 32. The cicular letter was a letter to the other colinies explaining what was going on.
THE BOSTON MASSACRE 33. Tensions in Boston between colonists and British tropps was highest in Boston. 34. When the troops first marched through Boston the colonists showed restrain. The other were nervous and thought maybe the rumors of British tyranny were true. 35. A mob of 60 ngry townspeople desended upon the customs house to get the seized goods from Hancock's ship back. The crowd became unruly throwing snowballs and rocks. A British solider fired off his gun and 5 colonials lost their life. 36. Most of the British troops were cleared of any wrong doing. Two ere convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to a branding of the thumb. 37. Parliament decided to withdraw all txes except the on tea. 38. Americans learned that the British would use force when necessary to keep the Americans obedient.
THE TEA ACT AND TEA PARTIES 39. The colonists cannot forget occupation and bloodshed. 40. Lord North gave the British East India Company a trading monopoly with the American colonies. 41. He had hoped it would make every one happy, the colonists would get cheaper goods and the East India Company would make more money. 42. The colonists were skeptical of the deal and figured prices would rise again quickly. 43. On a cld December night colonists snuck abord a ship carrying tea, dressed as indians, and threw 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor. 44. No tea got into the colonies.
THE INTOLERABLE ACTS 45. The British could tolerate letters, boycotts, defiant legislatures and customs officials being harrassed. However, they could not tolerate the destruction of so much property. The Boaton Tea Party crossed a line. 46. The Coercive Acts closed Boston Harbor to everything but food and firewood, banned town meetings and the authority of the royal governor was increased. 47. Soliders were now tried outside the colony for murder and they had more rights to be housed in private quarters. 48. The Quebec Act established the Roman Catholic Church as the established church in Quebec, an appointed council was the law instead of an elected body and Qubec's boundary was extended into the Ohio Valley. This upset the colonists because it gave land to the French which the colonists saw as theirs. 49. The Intolerable Acts are: The Boston Port Act, The Massachusetts Government Act, The Administration of Justice Act, The Qubec Act. 50. The First Continental Congress was called on September 5, 1774 and it was called because the British government ha gone to far.
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