1. Unit Three
Creating a Nation

2. Objectives
Explain how changes in British policies in North America caused dissatisfaction among colonists.
Describe the outbreak of hostilities between Patriot and British forces.
Discuss the preparation of & key points in the Declaration of Independence & the Constitution.

3. chapter 5
Section 1

4. Objectives
Describe why the British had problems in North America after the French and Indian War.
Explain how the colonists responded to unpopular British laws.

5. Relations With Britain
Feelings of distrust grew between colonists & Britain due to:
British soldiers being stationed in the colonies & frontier
Proclamation of 1763
Passing of trade laws & the Sugar Act

6. Finance minister Grenville tried to catch smugglers.
Writs of Assistance (1764)
Used to search homes & warehouses for smuggled goods
Colonists outraged!

7. Sugar Act (1764)
Passed to stop molasses smuggling between colonies & French West Indies
Lowered tax on imported molasses
Allowed special courts (no juries) to hear smuggling cases

8. The Stamp Act Taxed almost printed material Newspapers Pamphlets Wills
Playing cards

9. Parliament repealed the Stamp Act (1766)
Colonists opposed Stamp Act because Parliament had passed it w/out their consent
“No taxation without representation!”
Protested law by:
Virginia passed resolution claiming exclusive right to tax its citizens
Sons of Liberty burned effigies, raided & destroying houses of British officials
Boycotts
Parliament repealed the Stamp Act (1766)

10. Declaratory Act of 1766 Passed same day Stamp Act repealed
Allowed Parliament the right to tax & make decisions for colonies “in all cases”

11. New Taxes Townshend Acts (1767)
Taxed imported goods at port of entry
Taxed glass, tea, paper & lead
Colonists boycotted British products again
Daughters of Liberty urged colonists to wear homemade fabrics & produce other goods

12. Trouble in Boston Parliament sent two regiments of troops to Boston
Called “Redcoats”
Some soldiers were rude & violent toward colonists
Fighting broke out between colonists & Redcoats

13. Boston Massacre Occurred on March 5, 1770
Townspeople armed themselves & marched toward customhouse
Redcoats fired, killing five colonists
Crispus Attucks, African American dockworker killed

14. Massacre led to call for stronger boycotts
Colonial leaders used killings as propaganda against the British
Parliament repealed Townshend Acts (except tax on tea)
Committees of Correspondence brought colonial protesters together

15. Tea Act of 1773
Passed to keep British East India Company from going under
East India Co. able to ship tea to colonies w/out paying most of tea taxes

16. East India Co. tea cheaper than other tea
Created a monopoly
Colonists boycotted British goods (again)
Daughters of Liberty burned tea
Colonists stopped East India Co. ships from unloading
Forced ships to return to Britain

17. Royal governor ordered tea unloaded in Boston
Sons of Liberty boarded ships & threw 342 chests of tea overboard
December 16, 1773
Second “Tea Party” occurred March 1774
Both “Tea Parties” cost Britain about $3 million (today’s currency)

18. The Coercive Acts King & Parliament wanted to punish Boston
Closed Boston Harbor until colonists paid for ruined tea
Banned town meetings
Forced Bostonians to house British soldiers
Colonists called these laws the Intolerable Acts