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!!

John Locke

Enlightment Ideas.

European Leaders---> Baron de Montesquieu and John Locke argued that people were born with rights!!

• Liberty
• Life
• Property

Also they said that good Government would protect those rights.

Patrick Henry
Young Republic on Virginia who used the enlightment ideas ti draft a document called Virginia Resolves. Only colonial assemblies could tax colonie.
1765 the House Of Burgueses accepted most of the resolves, but reject 2 because they dimed them radically.
overnment would protect those rights.

Patriot Leaders Emerge.

* Colonies Protested the stamp act which affected all colonies.
* Created a new but fragice sense of american unity.
* Those who opposed British taxes called themselves Patriots.
* In Seaport and Streets people has a lot of interests in politics.
* As protest continued angry crowds attached everyone that supposed them.
* 1765 a mob lead by sono of liberty attached the stamps collectors and stamp nooses.
* Thomas Hotchinson governor of Massachussets, he denounced the riots, and after that they destroyed Thomas house.


Tarring And Feathering, the colonist threw tar to tax collectors and feather.

Leaders Organize Boycott.

To control and coordinate their activities 9 colonies sent delegates known as the stamp Act. Congress held in New York City Oct. 1765.
The members of the congress boycott buying anything that came from England called the non importation agreements which threatened their manufactures.
women playes an important role so because they werent buying manufactured cloth they needed home spun--->cloth---> to maked clothes.
Womens were called the "Daughters of Liberty".
Colonist use 3 tactics to protest the British.

1. Intelectual: Virginia Resources.
2. Violence: Turture ( tarrying and Feathering)
3. Boycott: non importation agreement.