01:512:104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Boston Port Act, Townshend Acts, Navigation Acts
16 May 2018
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Chapter 07 - The Road to Revolution 1763-1775
Deep Roots to Revolution
• 2 main ideas of government had started to form in the colonists' minds
- Republicanism and "radical" Whigs
Mercantilism and Colonial Grievances
• Every colony, besides Georgia, wasn't formally founded by the British government
• Mercantilism - the British theory that justified their control over the colonies
• The Navigation Law - 1650, the first law Parliament passed to regulate the colonies
Merits and Menace of Mercantilism
• Benefits - tobacco planters and other colonies, protection of the English navy
• Burdens - liabilities, colonies felt used
The Stamp Tax Uproar
• Prime Minister George Grenville - the main man that enforced the Navigation Laws
• 1763 - Navigation Law
• 1764 - Sugar Act
-raising the tax revenue on sugar
• 1765 - Quartering Act
-required to provide food and lodging to British soliders, even private homes
• 1765 - Stamp Act
-tax on info. papers, legal documents etc
Forced Repeal of the Stamp Act
• The Parliament was forced to repeal the Stamp Act in 1766 becuase of the continuous
rebellions of the colonies
The Townshend Tea Tax and the Boston "Massacre"
• 1767 - "Champagne Charley" Townshend passed teh Townshend Acts
-taxed on glass, white lead, paper, paints and, most importantly, tea
• The British sent troops over to the colonies in 1768 that were "drunk"
• March 5, 1770 - A rebellion was started in Boston against the "red coats"
• *1772 - Samuel Adams formed "Committees of Correspondence" in New York --->
spread spirit of resistance
• *1773 - Virginia formed the House of Burgessed
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