HIST 190 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Sugar Act, Navigation Acts, Mercantilism
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Understand the key aspects leading to the revolutionary war. Evaluate both the british and the colonists" arguments concerning the issues. Analyze the top down and bottom up as well as regional aspects of the various grievances. Discuss the changing colonial culture that develops that makes revolution a possibility. Synthesize the historical process over the course of the colonies that led to the emergence of colonial culture at the time of the american revolution. Navigation acts, wool act, hat act, molasses act, iron act all continued to restrict manufacture and trade in the colonies. Board of trade 1740s- attempted to tighten britain"s grip on the colonial economy. Writs of assistance- search warrants given to british officer to search anywhere and everywhere for smuggle goods. Seven years" war, along with multiple other conflicts in the 1700s left britain in serious debt- Financial from the colony became vital to maintain power in the minds of the british.
