CAS HI 151 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Stamp Act Congress, Sugar Act, Money Supply
15 Aug 2016
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From the stamp act to the tea party. The empire began to disintegrate at the end of the seven years war. The sugar act and stamp act greatly intensified the conflict. 1. issue about the nature of constituted authority--where legitimacy lay. 2. in the process of working out #1, the legitimacy of all institutions began to be called into question. The continuing of the efforts to tax and the garrisoning of british troops in colonies produced the revolution. The revolution began to be clear by 1765. Despite all of the problems, they didn"t know it was coming. It only became apparent in 1765 that they could not fix the empire. Colonial americans all identified as being british. They were proud of being british at the time because britain was the main power in the world at the time. After 1633, there was not a strong hand of british power in the colonies.
