Transcript Chapter 5 ppt

CHAPTER 5: THE PROBLEM
EMPIRE
Tighter British Control
SETTING THE STAGE:
England needed the colonies. Mercantilism was England’s way of
maintaining her position of power in the world.
The English suddenly wanted to regain control of the colonies after having
left them alone for a long period of time.
The colonists resented the interference.
Not only did the colonists supply raw materials to
England, they also bought all of their finished products
from England. England was making a killing selling
finished products to the colonists.
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS BETWEEN ENGLAND AND NORTH
AMERICA FROM 1763-1776
QUIZ QUESTIONS:
1. For what economic system did the English need the colonies?
2. What was worth more money: the exports to England from the
colonies, or the imports to the colonies from England?
THE COLONIES AND BRITAIN
GROW APART
With the help of the
Colonists, the British
won the French and
Indian War
In 1763, The Treaty of
Paris awarded England
all of the land from the
Appalachian Mountains
to the Mississippi River.
THE PROCLAMATION OF 1763
The colonists were eager to claim the
new land beyond the Appalachians.
King George, however, didn’t want
trouble with the Indians, so he passed a
Proclamation forbidding the colonists
to move beyond the Appalachian
Mountains
TO MAKE MATTERS WORSE. . . .
 The Colonists were angry over
the Proclamation of 1763. They
felt they deserved the new land
because they had fought for it.
Then, King George decided the
colonists should help pay for the
debt he’d acquired fighting the
French and Indian War, so he
passed the Sugar Act which placed
a tax on molasses, sugar, and other
items shipped to the colonies
AND EVEN WORSE . . . . .
King George wanted to
enforce the Proclamation
of 1763 by preventing the
colonists from moving
across the mountains.
He also wanted to make
sure the colonists didn’t
smuggle goods from other
countries to avoid the
Sugar Act.
So, George passed the
Quartering Act.
He wanted to keep troops
in America to enforce his
laws, but he didn’t want to
pay for their room and
board.
The Quartering Act stated
that colonists HAD to allow
British soldiers to live in
their homes.
COLONISTS BECAME
INCREASINGLY ANGRY:
Colonists were angry over the
Quartering and Sugar Acts.
They resented the king’s sudden
enforcement of laws.
Remember, the colonists had
enjoyed a long period of salutary
neglect in which they made their
own rules.
They especially resented being
taxed without their consent. They
had no representatives in
Parliament.
QUIZ QUESTIONS
3.
4.
Why did King George pass the Proclamation of 1763?
Why did the king think the colonists should begin paying taxes
to England?
AND THEN CAME THE STAMP
ACT
QUIZ QUESTIONS:
5.
The colonists were angry over the Stamp Act because it was
“taxation without _________________.”
6.
7.
What did the stamp act tax?
How did the colonists protest the Stamp Act?
8.
Did it work?
THE TOWNSHEND ACTS
The King wasn’t happy over the colonists’ refusal to pay taxes.
His finance minister, Charles Townshend, suggested new acts.
One of these acts suspended New York’s assembly until New Yorkers
agreed to house soldiers.
AND. . . .
 The Townshend Acts placed duties or taxes on imported goods such as
glass, paper, paint, lead, and tea.
 The Townshend Acts also gave soldiers the right to search colonists
homes with warrants known as writs of assistance.
 These writs could be issued without probable cause to search homes for
smuggled goods.
TOOLS OF
PROTEST
To protest the Townshend Acts, the colonists began
another boycott of English goods.
Samuel Adams, a brewer, and the leader of the Sons of
Liberty led the protests
QUIZ QUESTIONS
9.
What is a boycott?
10. Who was the leader of the Sons of Liberty?
TROUBLE BREWS . . . . .
In the fall of 1768, 1,0000 British soldiers arrived in Boston under the
command of General Thomas Gage.
These soldiers were to enforce the Townshend Acts
Tension filled the streets of Boston
QUIZ QUESTIONS:
11. How many Bostonians were killed in the Boston Massacre?
12. Did Paul Revere use propaganda to stir up anger among the
colonists?
THE TEA ACT
Finally, the boycott of English goods
and the anger of the colonists forced
Parliament to repeal the Townshend
Acts.
BUT. . . . King George left one tax in
place . . . The tax on tea.
QUIZ QUESTIONS
13. In what year did the Boston Tea Party take place?
14. Other than the destruction of property, was The Boston Tea Party a
peaceful demonstration?
THE INTOLERABLE ACTS
England’s rulers were furious over the Boston Tea Party.
Determined to get the colonists under control, Parliament and King
George passed the Coercive Acts. The Colonists called these the
Intolerable Acts.
THE FIRST CONTINENTAL
CONGRESS MEETS
In response to the Intolerable Acts,
the colonists formed the First
Continental Congress.
In the eyes of the king, this was
treason.
QUIZ QUESTIONS:
15. The colonists called these acts the Intolerable Acts. What did the
English call them?
16. What did the colonists do in response to the Intolerable Acts?