Colonies organized stamp act congress o renounced act

Colonies organized Stamp Act Congress
o Renounced act
o Why it was unconstitutional
 Colonist claimed to have exemption due to them not consenting
o Violation of liberty and property
 Law is abandoned in 1766 but declaratory act replaced it
 Declaratory acts
 Reserve the rights to make laws for America in all cases whatsoever
 Promoted further conflict
 Townsend acts

 New import duties
 Regulate trade not raise revenue
o Colonial response
 Cont.
 Committee of correspondence
o Boston communicated with other colonies to encourage
opposition
 Sons of liberty
o Led citizens in protests
o Took lead in enforcing boycott of British goods
 Regulators
o Residents of South Carolina backcountry
o Protested under representation of western settlements in the
colony's assembly and failure to establish local governments
who could regularize land titles and suppress outlaws
o Condemned rich and powerful
o Caused turmoil until suppressed by colonial militia in 1771 at
battle of Alamance
 Non-importation movement
 Response to Townsend acts
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 Organized violence
 Sophisticated
 Mobs attacked customs officials in court
 brought revolution to ordinary people
 placed troops in awkward positions
o The question of hurting unarmed civilians
 quartering act
o 1765- required colonies to put up soldiers and feed them
 King street riot aka Boston massacre
 Rope maker taunted soldiers
 Riot ensued
 Colonists attacked for days
 3 men killed
 Depicted as massacre
o Resistance to rebellion
 British east India company
 Bankruptcy
 Unable to sell tea in America
 Still refused to export goods
 Persuaded British gov to cut tea tax from 6-3
 Shipped tea o Boston
 Colonist leaders formulated an attack plan
 Men dressed up as Indians threw tea overboard
 All about economic positions

 Coercive acts aka tolerable acts
 Response to Boston Tea Party
 1. Boston Port Act
o Closed port until price for tea was repaid
 2. administration of justice act
o Any soldier tried for a crime in America can be tried in Britain
 3. Massachusetts gov act-
o Removed colonial government from power
o Put military gov in power
o Put under British marshal law
 4. Quartering act
o Colonists must put up soldiers and feed them
 Cont.
o Britain was punishing colonists
o Boston saw this as a death sentence
o Formed inter colonial resistance
o Formed revolution
o Led by wealthy educated elites
o Formed from above
o Aka elite revolution
 Quebec act
 Established new system of gov.
 Allowed French inhabitants to keep Catholicism
 British wanted to appear sensitive to French life in Canada
 Ideology of American revolution
 Helped colonies move from resistance to revolution
 1774-1776
 Colonists discovered rights and liberties they never knew they had
 1/3 of colonist's support
 Spread ideas
o 1. virtue
 Of cause against Britain
 Fight corruption
o 2. natural rights
 Defending man
o 3. struggle between power and liberty
 Long age of opposition thought
o 4. founders had support of evangelical ministers
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