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1760- George III- King of England22 years old- very young

Problems in North America

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• Resentment among colonists• British colonists were farmers- greater threat to

Indians• General Jeffrey Amherst- British military

commander- North America- despised the Indians• Spring 1763- Indians rebel• Pontiac’s Rebellion- Ottawa leader• British forts destroyed besides Fort Pitt, Fort

Detroit

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• Proclamation of 1763- closed area west of the Appalachian Mountains- under British military control

• People still move into the region• Result: British authority undermined• British heavily taxed• George Grenville- finance minister to prime

minister• Colonists should start paying their own costs

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• New taxes along with duties- tax on imports• Sugar Act of 1764- regulations• Ships would be seized• Trials in British courts- only a judge not a jury• Quartering Act- provide housing and supplies for

British troops• Stamp Act- tax- newspapers, documents,

pamphlets• Purpose: to raise money

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• Impact on printers, merchants, lawyers• Stamp Act Congress- leader- James Otis- lawyer-

Massachusetts• “No taxation without representation”• Petitions- letters sent to the king, Parliament• Boycott- refusal to buy• Sons of Liberty, Daughters of Liberty• Boston Sons of Liberty- Samuel Adams• Stamps delivered- houses and lives would be in danger• 1766- Parliament repealed the Stamp Act

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• Declaratory Act- Parliament- make laws- in all cases whatsoever

• Charles Townshend- Britain’s chief financial officer- Townshend Acts

• March 5, 1770- British soldiers threatened• Five colonists dead- Boston Massacre• Parliament canceled the Townshend Acts• 1772- Committee of Correspondence created

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• Parliament passes the Tea Act- help British East India Company

• American tea merchants out of business?• Tea dumped into the harbor- Boston Tea Party• 1774- Coercive Acts passed by Britain• Town meetings once a year• Canada’s boundary to the Ohio River• Thomas Gage- charge of British forces- new governor of

Massachusetts• Committees of Correspondence meet• Now the First Continental Congress

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• September 5, 1774- meeting- Carpenter’s Hall- Philadelphia

• GA not represented• Washington, Patrick Henry, Samuel Adams, John

Dickinson, John Jay present• Renewed boycott• October 1774- Congress ended• Patriots or rebels form militias- guns• Concord- British troops try to seize supplies

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• Boston Patriots on alert- Paul Revere• Arrive in Lexington- Minutemen• Battles of Lexington and Concord• Costly defeat for the British• Revolutionary War begins