Transcript George Grenville

Bellwork
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What does it mean to be neglected?
Objectives
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Define salutary neglect & explain
how it affected the colonies
Define mercantilism & explain how
triangular trade & the Navigation
Acts relate to it
England & Colonial America
Salutary Neglect:
English policy of
leaving the colonies to
develop on their own.
The main goal of
England: To make
money
Mercantilism
 Economic
policy that
states colonies exist for
the benefit of the mother
country
Mercantilism
Economic idea
Mother Country
Raw Materials
& Gold/Silver
Finished
Products
Colony
Triangular Trade
England
Colonies
Africa
French & Indian War
(1754 – 1763)
 The
first major step in
the road to Revolution
Causes
 Desire
to control the Ohio
River Valley
 Lingering hostilities between
the French and British & the
Indians and Colonists
 George Washington’s attack
@ Fort Duquesne
Albany Plan of Union
(1754)
 United
colonial effort to
solve Indian problem
 Strengthen colonial
defenses
 Leads to stronger colonial
unity
Treaty of Paris
(1763)
Ends the War
 France removed from North
America
 Great Britain emerged as
dominant world power
 Colonies have an increased
confidence in military strength
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Pontiac’s Rebellion
(1763)
 Indians
attack colonists in
new lands (Ohio River Valley)
 British retaliate & rebellion
is defeated
Bellwork
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Use textbook pages 98-105 to place
the British actions in correct
chronological order on your chart
Proclamation of 1763
 Prohibits
the colonists from
moving west of the
Appalachians
– Colonists upset: limiting the
freedom rights of the colonists.
– Proclamation ignored
George Grenville
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British Prime
Minister (17631765)
Tax colonists to
pay debt
Sugar Act &
Stamp Act
Stamp Act
Tax applied to all
paper documents
 Colonists should
pay their fair
share of colonial
defense
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Sugar Act
New tax: Lower
than original tax
Goal: Stop smuggling
Colonist Reaction:
Ignore it: Continue
to smuggle
Colonial Concerns
Quartering Act:
British troops in
colonial homes
Admiralty courts: No juries,
defendants were “guilty
until proven innocent”
“No taxation without representation”
Colonial Resistance
Stamp Act Congress
–Petition:
- Please repeal the taxes
Boycotts:
- Refuse to buy all
British goods, until
Stamp Act repealed
What did the colonists need
in order to boycott English
goods?
Homespun: Women make
clothing in their homes
Colonial Resistance
(enforcement)
Sons of Liberty
Radicals
mainly from
Boston
 Enforcers of
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boycotts
Sam Adams
 Leader
of the
Sons of
Liberty
 Propaganda
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Committees of
correspondence
Results
Stamp Act repealed
Declaratory Act:
Parliament has the
power to pass laws
on the colonies
Townshend Acts
 1767:
Punishment for
Stamp Act uprising
 “Indirect Tax” to pay for
royal judges
 British troops to enforce
the tax
Colonial Reaction
Boston Massacre
(March 5, 1770)
Boston Massacre
(March 5,1770)
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British soldiers
fire on an unruly
mob
Crispus Attucks
What is a
massacre?
John Adams
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Lawyer
Member of Sons
of Liberty
Defender of
British soldiers
accused of
murder
Townshend Acts: Results
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Decline in exports
– 1770: Townshend
Acts repealed
Tax remains on tea
Homework
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Answer questions 1-10 in study
guide, review notes, and highlight
key vocabulary words
Tea Act (1773)
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British East India
Co: Monopoly on
American tea trade
Lowers the price
of tea
 Colonists reaction:
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– Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts (1774)
 Closed
harbor
Boston
Massachusetts
charter revoked
 Colonists must
house troops
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Colonial Reaction
 1st
Continental Congress
– Sept – Oct 1774
– Complete boycott of
British good
– Restated allegiance to
England
Lexington & Concord
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Paul Revere, William Dawes, and
Doctor Samuel Prescott rode from
Boston to warn Lexington and
Concord.
Paul Revere and William Dawes was
stopped in Lexington, but Dr.
Prescott was able to continue to
Concord and warn the Minutemen
Lexington & Concord
(April 1775)
“By the rude bridge that
arched the flood, Their
flag to April’s breeze
unfurled, Here once the
embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard
round the world”
Lexington & Concord
 British
search for: colonial
weapons, Sam Adams and
John Hancock
 Casualties:
– 8 colonists killed
– 70 “Redcoats” killed, 300
injuries total
2nd Continental Congress
(May 10,1775)
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Government of colonies during the
war
Appoint George Washington as head
of Continental Army
– Political appointment
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Olive Branch Petition
– Last ditch effort to prevent all-out war
– Pledged loyalty to the crown
Early Battles
 Fort
Ticonderoga
– Ethan Allen
& Green
Mountain
Boys
– Benedict
Arnold
 Bunker
Hill
– Bloodiest
battle of
war
– American
victory
despite
abandoning
hill
Battle of Bunker Hill