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The American Revolution
The Crisis Begins
The French & Indian War
• 1754-1763
• Ohio Valley
• French drive out Eng. Fur traders.
• 1754 Fr. Est. Ft. Duquesne.
• Threat to PA & VA.
• G. Washington wont get Ft. D until 1758.
Treaty of Paris 1763
• End the Seven Years’ War (French & Indian War)
• GB gets land in Canada.
• All land east of MS River.
• FL from Spain.
• Spain – LA terr. From France.
Map 1763
Preview
• 1760 no one expects GB to lose America.
• GB huge debt from Seven Year’s War.
• Colonies must help pay.
• Colonial leaders believe new laws a threat to their liberty.
Pre-1763 Consolidation of Power
• Can’t issue money.
• Can’t make things that compete w/ GB.
• Tax on molasses
• Tobacco can only be shipped to GB.
• Colonies ignored them.
Proclamation of 1763
• Response to Pontiac’s War. (wants settlers out of the west.)
• King says colonists can’t cross the Appalachian Mts. (wants friendship)
• Colonists protest. They want new land.
Map 1763
Initial Skirmishes
• After Seven Years’ War GB saw importance of America to their power.
• Sugar Act – Lowered tax, but increased investigation of
smuggling– Admiralty courts (no jury)
Stamp Act Crisis
• Provisions & Indignation– 1st time direct tax on colony used.– All printed material– Finance empire & pay for troops stationed– All offended– Local govt had no say. (loss of liberty)
Liberty
• Freedom from captivity, imprisonment, or slavery
• Independence
Post-War Split
• Brit. perspective– Colonies lucky to be part of empire.– Colonies should share cost of empire (debt
10’s of trillions of dollars today)– “Virtual representation”
• American perspective– Colonies equal to mother country– No taxation w/o representation
Who Has The Right To Tax?
• Patrick Henry VA House of Burgesses– Colonists enjoyed
same “liberties, privileges, franchise, and immunities” as mother country.
– “British freedom” the right to consent to taxation. (No Taxation w/o representation)
American Resistance
• Committees of Correspondence (Boston)
• John Adams MA• 1765 Stamp Act
Congress– Drew up protest &
organized boycotts
Sam Adams MA
• Sons of Liberty– Regular people
demonstrating
• Disobedience, protest, colonial cooperation, boycotts, violence
• Repealed in 1766• England can still tax