how do you react if you feel like you are being treated unfairly?
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How do you react if you feel like you are being treated unfairly?. Write your best response to the question in your notes. The French and Indian War 1754–1763. Parliamentary Acts. Economic Strain on the Colonies. Timeline . 1651 – The Navigation Act of 1651 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
HOW DO YOU REACT IF YOU FEEL LIKE YOU ARE BEING
TREATED UNFAIRLY?
Write your best response to the question in your notes
PARLIAMENTARY ACTSEconomic Strain on the Colonies
Timeline 1651 – The Navigation Act of 1651 1763 – Great Britain issues the Proclamation Act of 1763 1764 – Parliament passes the Sugar Act to raise revenue in
the colonies 1764 – The Currency Act forbade further issues of paper
money in the colonies 1765 – The Stamp Act places new taxes on American
colonists 1766 – Parliament repeals the Stamp Act, but then passed
the Declaratory Act 1767 – The Townshend Revenue Acts are passed
Timeline – cont. 1767 – The Townshend Revenue Acts are passed 1770 – Five colonists are killed by British troops in
the Boston Massacre 1773 – The Tea Act is passed by Parliament 1773 – Sons of Liberty destroy British tea at the
Boston Tea Party 1773 – The Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts) are
passed to punish protestors in Boston 1774 – The First Continental Congress meets in
Philadelphia
The Boston Tea Party
How do the colonists react?
Signing the Declaration of Independence
Signing the Declaration of Independence
James Madison Father of the U.S.
Constitution Author of the Bill of
Rights
The American Experiment "The preservation of the sacred fire of
liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people."
--George Washington’s Inaugural Speech
George Washington The President of
Precedence
Jefferson’s Conundrum Strict interpretation vs. needs &
opportunity
The Louisiana Purchase
The Monroe Doctrine “In the wars of the European powers in
matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part….We owe it, therefore, to candor and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety.”
The Monroe Doctrine