HIST 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Tea Act, Virtual Representation, Intolerable Acts
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The british colonies after 1763: salutary neglect, 18th century. There were mercantilist policies, and a rise of bourgeoisies. The vision of this was for the natives to get rid of everything the white men gave them and return to their native lives, which turned into a large attack of natives on the colonists. The british drew the proclamation line of 1763 (the appalachian mtn. ) and put british troops on the line to protect the colonists, however, this ends up upsetting the colonists because they envision starting plantations west of the line. Maintaining the troops is expensive, so the british tax the colonists, (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h upsets the(cid:373) e(cid:448)e(cid:374) (cid:373)ore (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause they do(cid:374)"t e(cid:448)e(cid:374) (cid:449)a(cid:374)t the british there in the first place. Tea act of 1773: this caused the boston tea party, where colonists held the crew hostage and tossed the tea overboard, was violent.
