Chapter 5, Section 1

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Chapter 5, Section 1

• Taxation Without Representation

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Relations with Britain

• Distrust grew between the colonists and Britain
  due to
• British soldiers stationed in the colonies
• Proclamation of 1763
• Britains need for revenue which resulted in
  taxing the colonies

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Distrust with Britain grew due to

1. British soldiers stationed in the colonies
2. Britains need for revenue
3. Proclamation of 1763
4. All of the above

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Britains Trade Laws

• George Grenville becomes prime minister of
  Britain.Determined to reduce Britains debt and
  to stop smuggling
• (Smugglers sent to vice-admiralty courts - no
  jury)
• Writs of Assistance customs officers could
  search any location for smuggled goods
• violated the right to be secure in their homes

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Sugar Act

• Lowered the tax on molasses imported by the
  colonists
• Grenville hoped the lower tax would encourage
  colonists to pay the tax and stop smuggling
• Officers could seize goods from smugglers without
  going to court

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The Stamp Act

• Passed in 1765, this law placed a tax on printed
  material newspapers, pamphlets, wills and
  playing cards.
• Why did the Colonists opposed this tax
• Parliament taxed the colonies directly
• Taxed the colonists without their consent

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Protesting the Stamp Act

• Patrick Henry Burgess from Virginia -
  encouraged the Virginia assembly to pass a
  resolution declaring only Virginia could tax its
  citizens
• Samuel Adams started the Sons of Liberty in
  Boston
• Protesters burned effigies
• Protesters raided houses belonging to royal
  officials

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Stamp Act Congress

• Delegates from 9 colonies met in New York and
  drafted a petition to the king declaring the
  colonists could only be taxed by their own
  assemblies
• Citizens began to boycott- refuse to buy
• Signed nonimportation agreements-not to buy or
  import goods from Britain

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Stamp Act Repealed

• March, 1766
• Trust in the King and Parliament was never
  restored
• On the same day the Declaratory Act was passed
  stated Parliament had the right to tax and make
  decisions for the colonies in all cases.

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New Taxes

• Townshend Acts passed in 1767
• Taxed glass, tea, paper, and lead at the port of
  entry
• Colonists began to boycott again
• Daughters of Liberty formed urged Americans to
  wear homemade clothes and produce goods
  previously bought from Great Britain.

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Quartering Act-1765

• Required colonial assemblies to provide British
  troops with quarters, or housing
• Furnish with candles, firing, bedding, cooking
  utensils, salt, vinegar and beer or cider
• Passed after the Stamp Act