The Colonist Table Action

Colonies rejected the Acts!
1774 delegates from all colonies except Georgia met in Philadelphia and made the first continental Congress. VA delegates included Patrick Henry who become famous for a famous quote.
" Give me Liberty or give me Death"
The delegates anounced a boycott on all British products. The distinct between VA, Pennsylvania, New York and New England are no more Virginian but American.
1774 john adams
He Believed that they could unite and defeat the British.
He was the head of the colonist.
Samuel Adams (Leaders of son of liberty)
They wanted the representation and king to prove it.

Intolerable Act

Boston's harbour was closed until they recover the tea destroyed in the Boston Tea Party.
Massachusetts colony's charter was annulled and a military governor installed.
British officials charged with capital offenses.
Arrangement for housing British troops in American houses..

Quebec Act
Proclamation of 1763 extended to include territory west to the Mississippi, north to the frontiers of the Hudson's Bay territory, and the islands in the mouth of the St. Lawrence

Colonist Unite Against Harsh Measure

Coercive Acts ( by force)
The Intolerable Acts were the series of five laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Britains colonies in North America. The acts triggered outrage and resistance in the 13 colonies that later became the USA.

They Closed the Boston Port.
Also they increased the power of the governor.
The colonist didnt like it.
The king sent warships and more troops to Boston.

The Boston Tea Party.

British East India Company started to fail. So they put heir tea cheaper but still the colonist didnt want to pay because they knew they were going to pay taxes also.
1773 A group of Patriots disguised themeselves as native American and borded the boat and threw the tea on the ocean. And they called it the Boston Tea Party made by the boston patriots.

Violence Erupts in Boston.

Crispus Attucks.



Colonist received their 3 tactics because of Townshend Act
The largest riots occured in Boston.
Body officials abbuse.
A custom officer saw a boat called Liberty, the owner was John Hancock.
John H. was a wealthy merchant and politician.
March 1770 colonist throw rocks and snowballs. to the british soldiers who were awaring the costums House. So british shoot and killed them.
Adams created the committees of Correspondance to coordinate activities.
Parliament left the tax on tea.
Colonist Boycott the British tea and started drinking the Dutch Tea.

New Taxes Lead to New Protest.

Stamp Act plices showed that colonies were not going to pay direct taxes to the British. Charles town thougth that if we placed indirect taxes to colonies they would pay. In 1767 the Parliament pad the townshed. Acts, this kevy taxes in every day product glass, paint lead, paper, tea

Causes of the Revolution.

Colonist Rebel Against the British.
The colonist:

• Enjoyed the protection of the british during the " French-Indian war".
• Profited the trade with the british.
• Cherished their political Rights because they were an englih colony.

But the colonist started protesting because the british wanted to tax the people and this protest became a war!

Colonist Political Heritage

• Process Common Law the law of administration of justice according to established rules and principles.
• colonist cherished the right of paying no to levied taxes.
• they revealed they were not happy!

British Government had 3 branches

1. Executive-----> Monarch
2. Legislative----> Parliament congress
3. Judicial-----> Council

House of Lords.
An inherited seat normally by someone of the noblety 12 of 13 had this legislation system except Pennsylvania
House of Commons.
Are elected by people that were property owners just men and those who payed taxes.

Colonies had 2 Legislation:
Elected Assembly: elected by colonist didn`t vote for any british...
Council of Prominent: governor choose the one who serves the king.
House of Lords.
An inherited seat normally by someone of the noblety 12 of 13 had this legislation system except Pennsylvania
House of Commons.
Are elected by people that were property owners just men and those who payed taxes.

Colonies had 2 Legislation:
Elected Assembly: elected by colonist didn`t vote for any british...
Council of Prominent: governor choose the one who serves the king.

House of Lords Where Aristocrats

Priviledge Upper Class

Lord North, prime minister of England didn`t agree that men where born equal.
Most of the Britons and wealthy men agreed with Lord North. Also people in colonies.
This brought a Civil war!! British Constitution wasn`t a official document only the copilations of the law and thought.

Legal Charter and Ilegal.

• The colonist rights had been spell out in a formal document.
• 2 royal charters: Maryland, South Carolina.
• 2/3 of colonial men had requirements to vote.
• In Britain only 1/4 were weified to vote.
• In 1760 political upveaval had allowed the elective colonial assembly to increase their powers at expense of governors upheaval disturbance usually in protest.

In lack of aristocracy of inverited title in the assembly and council where made by planters and merchants related blood and marriage.
The assembly will held the salaries.
British officials hoped to tax the colonies and use the money to pay governments so they could win control.
The judges also where being passed by them.
The protest alarmed the colonist ( cherished their liberty).
Members of the parliament thought they represented all the british and England.
But their were no colonist in the parliament so they weren`t represnted.

Taxation Without Representation
The difference became a problem when the parliament was leving taxes to colonist. Colonist believed that their own elected officials had the right to tax them.

Sugar Act

New Taxes Upset Colonist.

The national dept was doubled because of this wear in Britain.
After the war the British gain new terretories.
Most of them payed by the British people and the colonist just a few.

The Sugar Quartoring And Stamp Acts.

Colonial merchants became rich by snuggling products from the colonies.
In 1764 The new primitive minister (England) George Grenville proposed raising money by making duties already in place. He reinforced the law and the duties went down.

Molasses a thick syrup produced during the refering. " Sugar Act ".
He also assigned new customs officers, created courts to connect duties. Persecuted smugglers.
1765--- Unpopular law of the Quartering Act required the colonies to supply a place to sleep and food to English troops.

Massachussets Colony Act.

Placed the colony under the control of the respective government.
The elected Assembly was a closed colonies host the priviledge to rule themselves.
In march the Parliament passed a Bill that taxed the colonies for money
called the "Stamp Act".
The act required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped
paper produced in London and carrying an embossed revenue stamp.

Taxation Without Representation.

Eagerly protested the Stamp Act that was going to take place on November.
Colonist had no representation on the parliament so they didin`t has the right to tax them.
Some Colonies believed that if they accepted the tax they had to accept the rest.
Somo colonist thought it was a conspiracy from the British official to destroy American Liberty they see it as a threat for liberty.
Thiss puzzled the parliament many large cities didn`t elect representative in the parliament .
Dismissed the colonist protest as selfihj and narrowed mind.
Had the right to levy taxes in every part of the empire, the parliament didn`t sway the colonists.

The British Imposed taxes to resolved the England Economic problems.

Colonial Protest Intesify.

American politician and the second President of USA .Adams came to prominence in the stages of the American Revolution. As a delegate from Masschussets to the continental congress.
He persuaded the Congress to adopt theUSA Declaration of Independence1776.


Tax Resistance:

Intelectual Protest.
Economic Boycotts.
Violent Intimidation.
All These was for make the british back down!!