1. No Taxation Without Representation

2. Do Now
Take out your Lesson 5.1 Worksheet

3. Revenue
Incoming money from taxes or other sources

4. Writ of Assistance
Court document allowing customs officers to enter any location to search for smuggled goods

5. Resolution
An official expression of opinion by a group

6. Effigy
A mocking figure representing an unpopular individual

7. Boycott
To refuse to buy items in order to show disapproval or force acceptance of one’s terms

8. Repeal
To cancel an act or law

9. The Seven Years War
The English and the French battled for colonial domination in North America, the Caribbean, and in India
The English were successful in winning the war, with the help of the American colonists
The war left England with a lot of debt

10. Proclamation of 1763
What did this proclamation do?

11. Proclamation of 1763
This order prohibited, or barred, colonists from living west of the Appalachian Mountains, on Native American land.

12. Proclamation of 1763

13. Proclamation of 1763
What 3 advantages did the proclamation provide?

14. Proclamation of 1763
a. It helped keep peace between Native Americans and settlers.

15. Proclamation of 1763
b. It also kept colonists near the Atlantic Coast, where British authority was stronger.

16. Proclamation of 1763
c. Finally, it allowed Britain to control westward expansion and the fur trade in the region.

17. Enforcing Trade Laws
What 2 reasons did Great Britain need revenue, or income?

18. Enforcing Trade Laws
a. Great Britain needed new revenue, or income, to pay for the troops.

19. Enforcing Trade Laws
b. The British also had large debts from the French and Indian War.

20. Enforcing Trade Laws
In order to make more revenue, what did Great Britain do?

21. Enforcing Trade Laws
The king and Parliament felt the colonists should pay part of these costs, so the British government issued new taxes on the colonies. It also enforced old taxes more strictly.

22. Enforcing Trade Laws
What was the response of the colonists?

23. Enforcing Trade Laws
To avoid taxes, some colonists resorted to smuggling.

24. Enforcing Trade Laws
What are writs of assistance?

25. Enforcing Trade Laws
These documents allowed the officers to search almost anywhere – shops, warehouses, and even private homes – for smuggled goods.

26. Smuggling Poster

27. The Sugar Act
What are 2 things the Sugar Act did?

28. The Sugar Act
a. This lowered the tax on the molasses the colonists imported.
b. The act also allowed officers to seize goods from accused smugglers without going to court.

29. The Sugar Act
The Sugar Act angered many colonists. What are 3 rights the colonists believed they had?

30. The Sugar Act
a. As British citizens, colonists argued, they had a right to a trial by jury.

31. The Sugar Act
b. They also felt they should be viewed as innocent until proved guilty.

32. The Sugar Act
c. Colonists also believed they had the right to be secure in their homes – without the threat of officers barging in to search for smuggled goods.

33. The Stamp Act
What did the Stamp act tax? Name 3 things the Stamp Act taxed.

34. The Stamp Act
This law taxed almost all printed materials. Newspapers, wills, and even playing cards needed a stamp to show that the tax had been paid.

35. The Stamp Act
What did Patrick Henry do to take action?

36. The Stamp Act
Patrick Henry got the assembly to pass a resolution – a formal expression of opinion – declaring that it had “the sole exclusive right and power to lay taxes” on its citizens.

37. The Stamp Act
What organization did Samuel Adams start?

38. The Stamp Act
The Sons of Liberty

39. The Sons of Liberty
What are 2 things they did?

40. The Sons of Liberty
a. Its members took to the streets to protest the Stamp Act.

41. The Sons of Liberty
b. Protestors burned effigies – stuffed figures – made to look like unpopular tax collectors.

42. The Stamp Act
Explain what the boycott on British goods means.

43. The Stamp Act
People in colonial cities urged merchants to boycott – refuse to buy – British goods in protest.

44. The Stamp Act
After Britain lost money, what happened to the Stamp Act?

45. The Stamp Act
As the boycott spread, businesses in Britain lost so much money that they demanded Parliament repeal, or cancel, the Stamp Act. In March 1766, Parliament repealed the law.

46. The Stamp Act Protests

47. The Townshend Acts
What goods were taxed because of the Townshend Acts?

48. The Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts taxed imported goods, such as glass, tea, and paper. The tax was paid when goods arrived – before they were brought inside the colonies.

49. Tip
Import means to go in to a country.

50. The Townshend Acts
Women protested by supporting another boycott of British goods. They also urged colonists to wear homemade fabrics rather than buying fabrics made in Britain.

51. The Townshend Acts
Some women’s groups called themselves the Daughters of Liberty.

52. Critical Thinking
In your opinion, which act was the harshest on the colonists? (Proclamation of 1763, the Sugar Act, the Stamp Act, or the Townshend Act). Explain your answer.

53. Wrap Up Questions
1. Explain the Proclamation of 1763

54. Wrap Up Questions
2. How are the Stamp Act and Sugar Act similar? How are they different?

55. Wrap Up Questions
3. Why do you think Samuel Adams and others formed the “Sons of Liberty” instead of just acting alone to express their anger at the British policies?

56. Wrap Up Questions
4. How was the Townshend Act different from the Stamp Act and Sugar Act?