APUSH 3.3- Taxation Without Representation Notes- 9/30/21

3.3 Taxation Without Representation AP Classroom Notes

9/30/21

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Key Concepts:

The Imperial struggles of the mid-18th century as well as new British efforts to collect taxes without direct colonial representation or consent and to assert imperial authority in the colonies, began to unite the colonists against perceived and real constraints on their economic activities and political rights
Colonial leaders based their calls for resistance to Britain on arguments about the rights of British subjects, the rights of the individual, local traditions of self-rule, and the ideas of the Englightenment

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Imperial Priorities

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Imperial Means to Imperial Ends

Proclamation of 1763
Sugar Act
Currency Act
Quartering Act
Stamp Act
Collective intent: have the colonists “pay their fair share” as members within the Briish Empire
British lawmaking for the colonies was based upon the theory of “virtual representation” by which the role of Parliament was to legislate on behalf of the Colonists

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The Colonial Competing Narrative

Identified themselves as Englishmen, in full possession of all the political rights of Englishmen, who just happen to live on this side of the Atlantic
Fell back upon traditions of Salutary Neglect, as well as the democratizing influences of the Great Awakening, and Enlightenment Ideals about the Social Contract/consent of the governed to argue that British legislating for the colonies was tyranny

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Where “The Big Question” Leads

Big Question: “Who has control over the colonies?”
This starts a process by which Colonists, irrespective of their colony of residence, become increasingly suspicious of Imperial motives, and begin to see things being done to them instead of for them
This represents the beginning of an intercolonial common cause, as shared grievances begin to gradually draw the 13 previously nonaligned colonies into an alignment

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3.3 Video 2 Notes

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Key Concepts:

The effort for American Independence was energized by colonial leaders such as Benjamin Franklin as well as by popular movements that include the political activism of laborers Artisans and women.
In the face of economic shortages and the British military occupation of some regions, men and women mobilized in large numbers to provide financial and material support to the Patriot movement.

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Gradual Steps Towards Organized Colonial Unity

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Commonalities & Characteristics

These groups all focused upon points of principle; legalistic formulations of arguments and discussions of Liberty in governance.
Embody a much greater working-class presents
Prone to more direct physical action (tarring and Feathering intimidation of Royal officials destruction of property)
Boston Massacre and Boston Tea Party; examples of public Defiance as public statements or propaganda victories
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More Grassroots Movements of Protest

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Gender and Revolutionary Activism

Women were critical to the success of the boycott movement
The production of handmade alternatives to British produced (and purchase) goods became a political statement
The success of boycotts as tools of economic Warfare required the discipline participation of persons from all levels of society

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Colonial Mobilization

The Sons of Liberty began to collect and store weapons and supplies, established intelligence networks, and create shadow governments at the local level
The semi-regular militia (the Minutemen) was the outgrowth of these processes
Women allied with the Patriot cause produce bandages, clothing, foodstuffs, gunpowder, bullets, and provide General supplies to the Army
Once the hostilities commenced some traveled with the res camp followers, tending to the wounded and providing General support

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