Transcript Turmoil Over Taxation

Warm-Up:
Title: Boston Massacre
Looking at
the picture on
the left, write
a 5-10
sentence
story about
what
happened.
Use clues
from the
picture to
help create
your
educated
guess.
Remember
that the
British
soldiers wore
red coats.
Turmoil
Over
Taxation
Ch. 5, Sect. 2
 Pontiac’s War breaks out in the Ohio River Valley.
 British lose ground and forts, but they are quickly regained.
 The Native Americans are led by Ottawa Chief Pontiac,
who had fought with the French during the war.
 In April 1763, Pontiac spoke out
against the British, calling them dogs
and saying that they had come to take
their hunting grounds.
An English trader said that he
commanded more respect than any other
Native American.
Chief Pontiac
 Fierce fighting occurs between the British soldiers and the
Native Americans.
 Proclamation of 1763
prevents settling west of
the Appalachian Mts., with
troops set up along this
line.
 Setting up troops and
colonists to enforce the
proclamation costs $$$
 PM George
Grenville says
that colonists
should help
pay the
costs.
 Sugar Act (1764) places a tax on molasses.
 Stamp Act (1765) taxes all legal and written documents.
Location for
British stamp.
Examples of
British stamps.
 Colonists protest the Stamp Act as “taxation without
representation” - Parliament has no right to tax colonists.
 The petition sent to Parliament is ignored, but they do stage a
successful boycott of British goods.
 The Stamp Act is repealed in 1766.
You have 60 seconds to discuss
what we covered in the notes.
• Who is fighting in the Ohio River Valley?
• What is created in 1763, after the war?
• Who did Prime Minister Grenville decide
should pay for the costs?
• What two acts were passed to help pay?
• What did the colonists think of these acts?
 Townshend Acts are
passed in 1767, which taxed
goods like glass, paper, paint,
lead and tea.
 Colonists are upset because
another tax is passed
without their consent.
 Writs of assistance
created to inspect ship’s
cargo without reason colonists say this violates
their rights.
 Colonists boycott goods
taxed by the Townshend Acts
to try to get them repealed.
Treasury official Townshend
 The angry colonists form the Sons and Daughters of
Liberty to help organize protests.
 Flag had 9 vertical stripes, rumored to represent the 9
colonies that were against the Stamp Act.
 New colonial leaders begin to emerge, both male
and female.
Abigail and John Adams
Mercy Otis Warren
Anti-British
Playwright
Lawyer and future founding father
of the U.S.A. & his activist wife
Samuel Adams
Sons of Liberty leaderJohn Adam’s cousin
Patrick Henry
Influential Speaker“Treason! If this be treason,
make the most of it!”
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Representative in the
Virginia House of Burgess
22 year old lawyer
1st victims of the
Revolutionary War:
Samuel Maverick17th year old
Cripus AttucksAfrican American
Sailor
 Boston Massacre: Name given to clash between British
soldiers and colonists, that kills 5 colonists - March 1770.
 John Adams defends soldiers in court to show the British,
and the world, that colonists believe in justice.
 After the Boston Massacre,
Sam Adams decides to form a
committee of correspondence
in every colony, to write letters
as a major form of protest, to
keep further senseless deaths
from occurring.
 Most of the Townshend Acts
and the Quartering (housing
British soldiers) Act are
repealed in 1770.
King George keeps the tax
on tea, which would prove to
be a mistake later on.
King George III