1. The Road of Revolution 1763-1775
AP US History
Chevalier
Fall 2011

2. The New “American”
Republicanism- subordination of self-interests to the common good. Stability of society and authority of government lay in its citizenry, not authoritarian or aristocratic rule.
“Radical Whigs”- wrote about corruption and threats to individual rights (against arbitrary power)
Local control

3. Revolution In Thought (1607-1763)
Early settlers disliked England
America’s distance and isolation weakened England’s control
Produced rugged and independent people
Allowed colonies to control themselves (laws and taxes)
Produced a new civilization and culture

4. Revolution in Action (1763-1789)
Taxation without representation
Colonial bloodshed by British
Battles of Lexington and Concord
Declaration of Independence
War and separation with Britain
Writing of the US Constitution
A new nation

5. Economic Control of the Colonies
Theory of Mercantilism to control the colonies
Navigation Laws of 1650
Currency restrictions
Legislature nullification
Legislation and taxation and how it was perceived by the colonists
Ultimately, colonists will have to deny both legislative and taxation authority by Parliament

6. Economic Control of the Colonies
Mercantilism was both good and bad, but it was the principal of the matter:
Colonists: Protection, tobacco monopoly, bounties
Theodore Roosevelt:
“Revolution broke out because Britain failed to recognize an emerging nation when it saw one.”

7. King George III Despised the colonies for their insubordination.
Strong supporter of taxing the colonies
Would not compromise with colonies
After losing the colonies, he went mentally insane

8. Sugar Act 1764
Indirect tax imposed on sugar imported from W. Indies (irksome?)
Would pad the coffers of Parliament (140 million pound debt from war)
Enforcement of Navigation Acts
Quartering Act of 1765

9. Stamp Act (1765) Revenue for British troops stationed in America
Commercial and legal documents
Reasonable and just?
Admiralty courts for offenders
Taxation w/o rep.

10. Stamp Act Protests Stamp Act Congress (significance)
Non-Importation agreements
Sons of Liberty and Daughters of Liberty
Tarring and feathering
Ransacking homes of unwanted officials and tax agents

11. Stamp Act Protests The Stamp Act was never put into effect
Large economic impact on Britain
Declaratory Act
Maintained ‘absolute’ control
2 lines in the sand

12. Townshend Duties Crisis: 1767-1770
1767  William Pitt, P. M. & Charles Townshend, Secretary of the Exchequer. Champagne Charley!
Shift from paying taxes for Br. war debts & quartering of troops  paying col. govt. salaries.
He diverted revenue collection from internal to external tax (indirect).
Tax these imports  paper, paint, lead, glass, tea.
Increase custom officials at American ports  established a Board of Customs in Boston.

13. Townshend Protests Not as ‘loud’ as that of the Stamp Act Prosperity
Smuggling
Non-importation

14. Colonial Response to the Townshend Duties
1. John Dickinson  * Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania.
 2nd non-importation movement: * “Daughters of Liberty” * spinning bees
3. Riots against customs agents: * John Hancock’s ship, the Liberty * 4000 British troops sent to Boston.

15. many colonists began calling people who joined the non-importation
For the first time,
many colonists began calling people
who joined the non-importation
movement,
"patriots!"

16. Boston Massacre Propaganda

17. The Boston Massacre March 5, 1770 11 colonists killed or wounded
Details were somewhat sketchy
John Adams
Manslaughter (branded)

18. Committees of Correspondence
Purpose?
Significance?
In , what was the probability of rebellion against England?

19. Boston Tea Party: December 1773
East India Trading Company
Forced demand
Continued absence of local control
Coercive Acts passed as a result.

20. The Massacre of American Liberty
The Coercive Acts (1774) AKA the “Intolerable Acts”
Boston Port Act
Restriction of chartered rights (Mass. Gov’t. Act)
Quartering Act of 1774
Administration of Justice Act

21. Quebec Act (1774)
Established Roman Catholicism as the official religion on Quebec
Set up a Govt. without a representative assembly
Extended Quebec’s boundary to the Ohio River
American anger