Deep Roots ot Revolution
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2 main ideas of government had started to form in the colonists' minds- Republicanism and "radical" Whigs
Mercantilism and Colonial Grievances
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Every colony, besides Georgia, wasn't formally founded by the British government
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Mercantilism - the British theory that justified their control over the colonies
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The Navigation Law - 1650, the first law Parliament passed to regulate the colonies
Merits and Menace of Mercantilism
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Benefits - tobacco planters and other colonies, protection of the English navy
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Burdens - liabilities, colonies felt used
The Stamp Tax Uproar
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Prime Minister George Grenville - the main man that enforced the Navigation Laws
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1763 - Navigation Law
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1764 - Sugar Act-raising the tax revenue on sugar
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1765 - Quartering Act-required to provide food and lodging to British soliders, even private homes
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1765 - Stamp Act-tax on info. papers, legal documents etc
Forced Repeal of the Stamp Act
- The Parliament was forced to repeal the Stamp Act in 1766 becuase of the continuous rebellions of the colonies
The Townshend Tea Tax and the Boston "Massacre"
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1767 - "Champagne Charley" Townshend passed teh Townshend Acts
-taxed on glass, white lead, paper, paints and, most importantly, tea
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The British sent troops over to the colonies in 1768 that were "drunk"
- March 5, 1770 - A rebellion was started in Boston against the "red coats"
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*1772 - Samuel Adams formed "Committees of Correspondence" in New York ---> spread spirit of resistance
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*1773 - Virginia formed the House of Burgessed
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*1773 - British East India Company was about to go out of business and was going to see tea to the colonies cheap but with a hidden tax ---> infruated colonists
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*1773 December 16 - The Boston Tea Part
The "Intolerable Acts"
-1774 - named by the colonists, the intolerable acts were a British made series of acts designed to mock America
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Boston Port Act- closing of the Boston harbor till all damages of the Boston Tea Party were paid for
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Quartering Act-the power to lodge British troops anywhere, even private colonist homes
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Quebec Act-gave the French their Catholic religion adn old customs
Bloodshed
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1774 - forming of the Continental Congress
---> 55 men, most significant action was the creation of The Association
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The Association - complete boycott of British goods
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1775 April - British troops were sent to Lexington and Concord--->resulting the Lexington Massacre
Imperial Strength and Weakness
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Strength - population, professional army, wealth
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Weakness - soliders were needed at other areas around the globe besides the colonies, distance, lacking leaders, lacking food
*1781 - The Articles of Confederation were written