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Tea Act

Boston Tea Party

Intolerable Acts

Committees of Correspondence

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Colonists (even in other colonies) supported the Bostonians who dumped the tea, which led to greater unity.

Since the British East India Company was having financial problems, England helped by letting them have a monopoly over tea. Even with the tax, it was still cheaper than the smuggled tea.

The other colonists supported the Tea Party and burned tea themselves.

The Continental Congress unified twelve of the thirteen colonies and drew up the Deceleration of Rights and the Association.

A few hundred people from Boston dressed up as Indians and they threw away tea into the harbor as an act of defiance.

1) Boston Port Act: This closed the harbor until the damages were paid for.

2) Some rights of the colonists in Massachusetts were taken away.

3) Restrictions on town meetings.

4) New Quartering Act: Now, the local authorities had the right to place soldiers into any home.

5) Quebec Act: This act let the French keep their Catholic faith, extended borders down to the Ohio River Valley, trial by jury was denied and there were unrepresentative assemblies.

6) Impartial Administration of Justice Acts: Officials charged with murders could have trials in other British colonies or Great Britain.

7) Massachusetts Government Act: This act repealed the Massachusetts' colonial charter and gave more power to the royal governor.

They stimulated united action against a common enemy and it evolved into the first American Congresses.

These were local bodies in colonies that kept British hatred alive.

Townshend Duties

Response

In an angry response, the colonists had demonstrations that made the ships turn around in the harbor. They also burned cargo and dumped tea into harbor (Boston Tea Party).

The British responded by issuing the intolerable acts, especially aimed at Massachusetts.

Other colonists helped out the people in Massachusetts by sending them food. The anti-Catholics and land speculators were angry because of the Quebec Act. The colonists were also scared because the denial of trials or representation was so close to home, they viewed it as a dangerous precedent. The Continental Congress was created.

First Continental Congress

The British weren't too happy about these; however, no big action was taken to prevent them.

Impact

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This law created an indirect tax on imports.

This increased tensions between the Americans and the British, and the colonists got together into a mob and started the Boston "massacre" by provoking British officers.

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Americans united to fight the British in the battles of Lexington and Concord.

This convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies was created to express grievances and it drew up the Deceleration of Rights and The Association. The Olive Branch Petition was also adopted at first but it was just an attempt to avoid war and it was rejected later.

Americans smuggled tea and nonimportation agreements resurfaced but they were not as strong as last time.

Response

More British troops came into the colonies and they drilled openly.

Grenville Acts

British Policy Chart

Samuel Adams

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by Ana Farshi

The Stamp Act Congress of 1765 brought together the colonists from nine colonies and they drew up grievances. The Sons and Daughters of Liberty and Nonimportation Agreements, such as homespun, gave Americans opportunities to get together and participate.

1) Sugar Act (1764): It raised the tax on foreign sugar from the West Indies.

2) Quartering Act (1765): It made the colonists provide food and shelter for the British troops.

3) Stamp Act (1765): It put a stamp tax on bills of sales and other types of documents.

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He succeeded in spreading British hatred and unified the colonists against them.

He was a revolutionary leader who organized the Boston Tea Party and Committees of Correspondence.

1) Sugar Act: Colonists protested until the duties were lowered.

2) Quartering Act: Colonists didn't comply, especially in New York.

3) Stamp Act: Stamp Act Congress formed. Colonists became angry and yelled "No taxation without representation!"

Response

The British wanted him dead (along with John Hancock) right before the battles of Lexington and Concord.

Sons of Liberty

Proclamation of 1763

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Americans stood up together to defy the British.

It prohibited the colonists from moving into the area past the Appalachians. The Admiralty Courts were given jurisdiction over this law.

They helped create revolutionary fervor in the colonies and spread ideas of revolution and British hatred while uniting together against a common enemy.

They were a group of violent protestors who yelled "Liberty, property, and no stamps." They tried to enforce nonimportation agreements and tarred and feathered people.

Response

The colonists became angry and moved westward anyway.

The Stamp Act became nullified and eventually repealed. However, the Declaratory Act was passed at the same time which bound America to Britain.

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