The Acts

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The Acts

• Navigation Act, Sugar Act, Stamp Act, and the
  Intolerable Acts,

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Navigation Act

• The Navigation Act made it illegal to ship any
  merchandise on any ship other than one belonging
  to England.
• It also made it illegal to trade with anyone
  other than the English if you were in the
  colonies.

3
The Navigation Act

• This is basically the same thing Spain did with
  its Latin American colonies that ended up with
  the War Of Jenkins Ear.

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The Sugar Act

• It is important to know that the Sugar Act
  controlled more than just sugar. It also covered
  things like lumber, cotton, dyes and more.
• This was an attempt to collect more taxes on
  goods to pay for the war debt.

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The Navigation Act with The Sugar Act

• By themselves neither the Navigation Act or the
  Sugar Act was that big of a problem. It was when
  they were combined that it hurt Georgia.
• Georgia was trading lumber for sugar/molasses
  with the Dutch East Indies. The Navigation Act
  made that trading impossible, further if they
  went through the channels they were suppose to it
  tripled the taxes they were paying.

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The Stamp Act

• The Stamp Act was passed by the British
  Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was
  imposed on all American colonists and required
  them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper
  they used. Ship's papers, legal documents,
  licenses, newspapers, other publications, and
  even playing cards were taxed. The money
  collected by the Stamp Act was to be used to help
  pay the costs of defending and protecting the
  American frontier near the Appalachian Mountains
  (10,000 troops were to be stationed on the
  American frontier for this purpose).

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The Stamp Act

• This was not a tax on stamps. Instead it
  required a stamp be placed on all taxed material
  to insure that the tax had been paid. In effect
  what this did was allow tax collectors to come by
  and look at materials, if it did not have the
  stamp on it, he charged you tax.
• This could be a problem since you may have owned
  the product before the Act came out. You may
  have traded with someone else in the colony.

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The Stamp Act

• The act required taxes on all legal documents.
  This also meant things like dice. Anything that
  could be seen as something sanctioned by the
  crown (and gambling was legal) it was taxed.

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How would it effect you?

1. What about your daily life?
2. What about future plans?

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How would it effect you?

• What about your daily life?
• Communications?
• What about future plans?

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How would it effect you?

• What about your daily life?
• Communications? Games?
• What about future plans?

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How would it effect you?

• What about your daily life?
• Communications? Games? Reading material?
• What about future plans?
• Legal papers?

13
How would it effect you?

• What about your daily life?
• Communications? Games? Reading material?
• What about future plans?
• Legal papers? Family records?

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How would it effect you?

• What about your daily life?
• Communications? Games? Reading material?
• What about future plans?
• Legal papers? Family records? Work?

15
Boston Tea party

• There were many other acts that we have not
  talked about Mainly because they did not impact
  Georgia very much. Overall the colonist were
  getting tired of the taxes to pay for a war that
  they felt betrayed about.
• In protest the colonist in Massachusetts went
  aboard a English ship and dumped the contents of
  the hold into the river.

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Boston Tea party

• This angered the British and in particular King
  George who felt that he was losing control. He
  decided that the colonies needed to be punished.

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The intolerable acts

• Boston Harbor was closed to trade until the
  owners of the tea were compensated.
• Only food and firewood were permitted into the
  port.
• Town meetings were banned.
• The authority of the royal governor was
  increased.
• British troops and officials would now be tried
  outside Massachusetts for crimes of murder.
• Greater freedom was granted to British officers
  who wished to house their soldiers in private
  dwellings.

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The consequences

• That same day, the Boston massacre set a course
  that would lead the Royal Governor to evacuate
  the occupying army from Boston, and would soon
  bring the revolution to armed rebellion
  throughout the colonies.

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The Boston tea party

• The Boston Massacre was the killing of five
  colonists by British regulars on March 5, 1770.
  It was the culmination of tensions in the
  American colonies that had been growing since
  Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in
  October 1768 to enforce the heavy tax burden
  imposed by the various acts.

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Boston Massacre

• Print was made by a silver smith named Paul
  Revere.