The American Revolution:

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The American Revolution

• Causes of the Revolutionary War

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The original Acts of Trade

• Navigation Act - 1651
• Enumerated Commodities Act - 1660
• Staple Act - 1663

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French and Indian War

• French Indians vs. the British over control
  over the Ohio Valley (1754)
• Also called the 7 years war
• Caused problems between the colonists and the
  British.

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Treaty of Paris (1763)

• Ended Seven Years War
• Results
• Britain Receives
• Canada
• Florida (Spain allied with France)
• Claim to all land east of Mississippi, except New
  Orleans

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Englands New Colonial Policy

• To reassert English political and economic
  control over the colonies.
• To restore colonial respect for English laws.
• To make the colonies pay for the cost of the
  French and Indian War.

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Seven Laws towards English Policy

• Navigation Acts - 1763
• Writs of Assistance - 1763
• Proclamation of 1763
• Sugar Act - 1764
• Currency Act - 1764
• Stamp Act - 1765
• Townshend Act - 1767

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Writs of Assistance (1763)

• Assistance-forms which allowed tax collectors to
  search for smuggled goods.

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Proclamation of 1763

• King George III issued this to ban colonists from
  settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
• Ordered colonists to return from the upper Ohio
  River valley
• Colonists ignored the order from King George III

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Sugar Act

• Prime Minister George Grenville enacted this tax.
  
• Tax on sugar imported by colonists

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Stamp Act (1765)

• Grenville replaced tax on sugar to a tax on all
  legal documents, licenses, newspapers, and
  pamphlets.
• DIRECT TAXATION!
• Protest began immediately
• Sons of Liberty-formed by Samuel Adams
• An Emblem of the Effects of the STAMP,

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Townshend Act (1767)

• Townshend Acts placed duties on imported glass,
  lead, paint, paper, and tea.
• Money made from this would pay for military costs
  and salaries of colonial governors.

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Colonial Opposition to policy

• Resorted to smuggling
• Denounced use of writs of assistance
• Boycotted British goods
• Demonstrated against British soldiers (Sons of
  Liberty, Daughters of Liberty)
• Use of Propaganda

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• Turn to Page 172 and read The Boston Massacre

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The Boston Tea Party

• Rid colonies of Townshend Acts, but kept tax on
  tea
• Tea Act
• Sons of Liberty dressed as Natives and dumped 342
  chests of tea into the Boston Harbor

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British reaction to Boston Tea Party

• Passed the Coercive Acts (colonist called them
  intolerable acts)
• Boston Port Bill Boston Harbor Closed until tea
  was paid for
• Massachusetts Government Act Mass. Charter was
  cancelled
• Administration of Government Act Tried by
  British Officials
• Quartering Act
• Thomas Gage was the new Governor of Mass