post seven years war - pre american revolution

seven years war

-war fought in colonies between english and french and natives over possesion of the ohio river valley

-english won

-treaty of paris is negociated

albany plan of union

=ben franklins plan to unite the colonies under one government to defeat france

proclamation act

-issued by english parliment

-prohibited colonists from settling beyond the appalachian mountains

-response to pontiacs rebellion

what was the sugar act

-reduced preexisting tax on sugar

-enforced the navigation acts

effects of the sugar act

-ended period of salutary neglect

-colonists were unhappy bc they saw it as a way to pay a levy & as a threat to merchants

what was the stamp act

-first direct tax from parliament to colonies

-taxed anything printed on paper

effects/significance of the stamp act

-taxed business

-pissed off merchants (especially those in boston, who were in charge of the colony’s exports)

-sons of liberty

-stamp act congress

who were the sons of liberty

group of colonists who formed a secret society to oppose British policies

what was the stamp act congress

-group of representatives from 9/27 colonies

-argued that colonists had rights just like englishmen

• no taxation without representation

• only the government that colonies elected had the right to tax (=HOB)

-decided to boycott british goods

patrick henry

-part of SAC

-argued that only colonial assemblies should have the power to tax colonies

-what the british are doing violates their own laws

what were the townshend acts

-taxed fabric, nails, rope, glass, and tar

-materials required to build a ship

response to the townshend acts

=sons of liberty protest at the customs house

• colonists throw bricks, snowballs, etc at soldiers

• soldiers fire into crowd

event known as boston massacre

what was the tea act

-east india company was struggling

-britain dumps tea from east india company onto colonies, which gave them a monopoly on tea, they just had to sell at half-price

response to tea act

=boston tea party

• colonists dump over 300 crates of tea into harbor

what were the intolerable acts

=response to boston tea party

• more soldier arrived, colonists forced to house them (=quartering act)

• closed harbor until tea was payed for

• reduced power of colonial assemblies