HSTAA 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Salutary Neglect, Townshend Acts, Quebec Act
22 Nov 2018
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The militiamen fighting at lexington didn"t think of independence. Wanted restoration of self-governance under policy of salutary neglect: fallout from intolerable acts (1774, closed boston harbor, annulled massachusetts colonial charter, restructured massachusetts government, legalized quartering, etc, quebec act. Extended south boundary of quebec into ohio territory. Recall: supposedly for native people, but contested by white settlers & english soldiers. Land the encroaching white settlers won"t give up. Intermediate causes: regulatory & tax acts of 1760s, sugar act, stamp act, declaratory act, townsend revenue acts. Revenue needed for colony administration, english merchant prosperity. English: colonies existed for benefit of mother country, not other way round. Seen as threatening to american rights as englishmen. Washington as commander from virginia, not just new england representation. Note: boston the hotbed of radicalism: outlined grievances against england, justified to world why colonists took up arms against britain. Lord dunmore transferred ammo from williamsburg (colonial capital) to british warship.
