01:510:261 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Stamp Act 1765, Stamp Act Congress, Virtual Representation
13 May 2018
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Chapter 05 - The American Revolution, 1763-1783
1. Onset of crisis
1. Pre-1763 consolidation of imperial authority
2. Emerging split over British-colonial relations
1. British perspective
1. Subordinate position of colonies
2. Obligation of colonies to share in cost of empire
3. "Virtual representation"
2. American perspective
1. Equality of colonies and mother country
2. No taxation without representation
3. Initial skirmishes
1. Writs of assistance against smuggling
2. Proclamation of 1763
3. Sugar Act
4. Revenue Act
5. Currency Act
4. Stamp Act crisis
1. Provisions of Stamp Act
2. Indignation in colonies
3. Coalescence of opposition
1. Virginia resolutions
2. Stamp Act Congress
3. Boycott of British goods
4. Public demonstrations
5. Committees of Correspondence
6. Sons of Liberty
7. Crowd actions
4. Breadth of opposition
1. Colonial elites
2. Middling ranks
3. Laboring classes
5. Repeal of Stamp Act; passage of Declaratory Act
5. Internal colonial disputes
1. South Carolina Regulators
2. North Carolina Regulators
3. Hudson Valley rent wars
4. Green Mountain land wars
2. The road to revolution
1. Townshend crisis
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