Chapter Five

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Chapter Five

• Towards Independence
• Years of Decision,
• 1763-1775

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Beginning of Troubles with England

• Mother-Daughter Friction
• Proclamation Line 1763, no settle west of the
  Appalachian mountains.
• Debt acquired by England during the French and
  Indian War.

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Grenville Taxation progam

• Reform of the Custom Service
• The Sugar Act
• Currency Reform
• The Stamp Act

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Reform of Custom Service

• Ordered all customs collectors to their Posts.
• Instruct the navy to run down all smugglers.
• Enlarge the Jurisdiction of Vice-Admiralty
  courts, Halifax Nova Scotia.

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Sugar Act

• 3 Penny tax on sugar
• Forbade importation of rum

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Currency Reform Act

• Parliament forbade all colonies to issue paper
  money, thus reducing the supply of currency just
  as the Sugar Act and improved customs collections
  were draining specie from the colonies.

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THE STAMP ACT

• Placed a tax on the following items
• Legal and commercial papers.
• Newspapers
• pamphlets
• and other printed matter

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Methods of opposition tothe Taxation program

• The colonialists were considered to have the
  Rights of Englishmen.
• Virtual Representation
• Boycotts
• Sons of Liberty
• violence, burning etc.

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REPEAL OF STAMP ACT1766

• 18 Mar. 1766 the Stamp Act was repeal by the
  British Parliament.
• Pass the Declaratory Act-Asserting the authority
  of Parliament over the colonies in all cases
  whatsoever.

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