1. Order of Acts Chapters 6 – 7

2. Breaking News!!!! Friday, September 28, 2012 ◦ Reds pitcher Homer Bailey threw a No Hitter! 1 st Reds pitcher to achieve this since Tom Browning in 1988 (Perfect Game)

3. 1763 End of French and Indian War -> End of Salutary Neglect. Why? ◦ Need for $ to pay off war debt Pontiac’s Rebellion -> Proclamation Line of 1763. Why? ◦ Conflict between Natives and Colonists west of Appalachians, British wanted to avoid future conflict

4. Stamp Act and Its Effects 1765 – Stamp Act ◦ Tax on 50 goods, purpose to raise $, THIS LEADS TO -> Stamp Act Congress! ◦ Congress….. Colonies….. Congress….. Colonies….. ◦ Colonial Unity! ◦ First attempt at colonial unity AGAINST the British ◦ Boycotts, tarring and feathering ◦ THIS LEADS TO -> Stamp Act is OVERTURNED! This Leads to……

5. Declaratory Act: (1766) ◦ Britain can pass ALL laws (including taxes!) Townshend Acts: 1767 ◦ Tax on tea, lead, glass, etc. ◦ Used to raise $ ◦ Eventually is REPEALED as well Tea Act: (1773): ◦ Tax on tea, purpose was to bail out British East India Company ◦ Tea is cheaper than smuggled tea, Colonists still upset. Why? ◦ This LEADS DIRECTLY TO……….

6. Boston Tea Party (December 1773) ◦ Sons of Liberty protest the Tea Act ◦ THIS LEADS DIRECTLY TO………. Intolerable/Coercive Acts (1774) ◦ Closed port of Boston until damages were paid ◦ Quartering Act ◦ THIS LEADS DIRECTLTY TO……… First Continental Congress (1774) ◦ Asked the King to end Intolerable Acts ◦ Wanted to go back to Salutary Neglect ◦ DID NOT WANT INDEPENDENCE!