1. Taxation Without Representation
Objectives:
Explain why Great Britain created new taxes for the colonies
Analyze the ways that colonists challenged the new taxes
Examine why the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party were significant events

2. French and Indian War: 1754 – 1763
France + Native American Tribes (Shawnee) vs. Great Britain + Native American Tribes (Mohawk & Cherokee)
42,000 British vs. 20,100 French
British victory
France lost a lot of their territory

3. After the French and Indian War
With Great Britain winning the French and Indian War…
The King was desperate for new revenue:
incoming money; usually by taxes

6. The King and Parliament felt it was only fair that the American colonists pay for part of the cost of the war.

7. American colonists took action:
smuggled goods/items into the country to avoid taxes
Parliament passed the Sugar Act
(1765):lowered taxes on imported goods
Allowed: officers to take goods cheaper

8. Parliament passed another law in an effort to raise money:
Stamp Act:  1765
Tax on all printed materials

9. Townsend Act  1767
to raise revenue to pay the salaries of governors and judges
to create a better way of enforcing trade regulations/rules
to punish the province of New York for failing to comply with the Quartering Act:
(1765) Must provide British soldiers with housing and food
to establish the British Parliament as the head of the colonies and the right to tax the colonies

10. Tea Act:  1773
Only allowed colonists to purchase tea from British East India Company, which included a tax.

11. View points of the American Colonists:
1. Parliament was interfering in colonial affairs
2. Taxing without consent

12. Violence in Boston
Relations between the redcoats (British soldiers) and the Boston colonists grew pretty tense
Boston Massacre: March 5, 1770
killed 5 colonists; wounding 6
***Side Note: foreshadowing the American Revolutionary War.

13. Boston Massacre

15. Boston Tea Party: December 16, 1773
Men disguised as Mohawks boarded ships in Boston Harbor
Threw 342 chests of tea overboard
***Side Note: key event in the growing tensions leading to the American Revolution.

18. Intolerable Acts: 1774
Closed Boston Harbor until colonists paid for all the tea
Colonists can’t get food or supplies with the harbor closed
Colonists are not allowed to have town meetings
Colonists had to shelter redcoats in their own homes

19. ***Side Note: these acts were seen as a violation of the rights of colonists, which organized the  First Continental Congress in September of 1774 and escalated to the  American Revolutionary War

20. Ticket Out
Describe the act or law passed by Parliament that you felt was the worst one of them all. Explain your answer in 3 – 4 sentences.