PSY 202 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Virtual Representation, Salutary Neglect, Intolerable Acts
12 Jul 2016
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The effects of the seven years" war: before the war, britain adopted policy of salutary neglect toward the colonies. First time parliament tried to raise revenue through direct taxation. Act required all colonists to buy stamps for printed materials. Many colonists believed the act limited the growth of a professional class in the colonies and curbed their levels of independence. Working-class colonists organized themselves to prevent the act"s implementation. Due to so much resistance, parliament repealed the stamp act in. 1766 but it passed the declaratory act stating. Stated that parliament had the authority to pass future laws that affected the colonies. Townshend crisis: put in place to try and extract money from the colonies: 1767: charles townshend, the british gov"t"s chief financial minister urged. Homespun movement an effort to produce/buy goods made in colonies: british merchants lobbied parliament to repeal the townshend acts, which is did.
