American Independence

● Standard 7.3b — British Policies and Colonial Protest

The Proclamation of 1763 was a British law that banned colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.

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Colonists felt cheated of land they fought for.

● Standard 7.3b — British Policies and Colonial Protest

The Stamp Act was a British law passed in 1765 that placed a tax on printed paper materials such as newspapers, legal documents like marriage licenses and wills, and even playing cards in the colonies.

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This was the first direct tax on colonists.

● Standard 7.3b — British Policies and Colonial Protest

The Sugar Act was a law that taxed sugar, molasses, coffee, indigo and other goods.

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Sugar was seen a luxury item

● Standard 7.3b — British Policies and Colonial Protest

To repeal means to officially cancel a law.

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Protest can lead to change. Especially ones that affected England’s finances

● Standard 7.3b — British Policies and Colonial Protest

This law taxed lead, glass, paper, paint and tea, which were all common items that colonists used regularly.

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Named after Charles Townshend, a member of British Parliament

● Standard 7.3b — British Policies and Colonial Protest

Writs of Assistance allowed officials to search for smuggled goods without cause in colonial ships and warehouses.

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Colonists valued privacy.

● Standard 7.3b — British Policies and Colonial Protest

The Quartering Act required colonists to house British soldiers. Colonists also had to provide food, candles and beer for British soldiers stationed in Colonial America.

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Soldiers in homes ️anger.

● Standard 7.3b — British Policies and Colonial Protest

The Tea Act helped the British East India Company sell tea.

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Cheap tea still angered colonists because it was taxed.

● Standard 7.3b — British Policies and Colonial Protest

A boycott is the refusal to buy goods as a form of protest. Colonists boycotted British goods to pressure Parliament into repealing unfair taxes.

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think of a boy on a cot, shaking his head ‘NO’

● Standard 7.3b — British Policies and Colonial Protest

Secret Patriot groups that shared information throughout the colonies, linking together an information network

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most news spread on horseback by riders

● Standard 7.3b — British Policies and Colonial Protest

On a cold night in March of 1770, Several British soldiers shot into a crowd of protestors after being harassed.

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Paul Revere made the famous engraving of the Boston Massacre.

● Standard 7.3b — British Policies and Colonial Protest

Propaganda is information used to influence opinions or actions, often by presenting only one side of an issue.

● Standard 7.3b — British Policies and Colonial Protest

The Boston Tea Party was a protest in 1773 in which colonists dumped British tea into Boston Harbor.

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Britain will punish colonists

● Standard 7.3b — British Policies and Colonial Protest

The Intolerable Acts were harsh laws passed by Britain to punish Massachusetts after the Boston Tea Party.

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England called these laws the Coercive Acts, but they were branded by the colonists as ‘intolerable’ and therefore became known as the Intolerable Acts.

● Standard 7.3b — British Policies and Colonial Protest

The First Continental Congress was a meeting of colonial leaders in 1774 who met to respond to British laws like the Coercive Acts.

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First step toward unity.

● Standard 7.3b — British Policies and Colonial Protest

A Patriot was a colonist who supported independence from Great Britain during the time of the American Revolution.

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about 30% of colonists became patriots. Patriot numbers soared in cities like Boston.

● Standard 7.3b — British Policies and Colonial Protest

A Loyalist was a colonist who remained loyal to Great Britain during the American Revolution.

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about 30% of colonists remained loyal to England, especially those in the southern colonies and those who often sold goods to the British under the system of mercantilism.

● Standard 7.3b — British Policies and Colonial Protest

A pamphlet created by Thomas Paine that made a clear case for independence and directly attacked the idea of a monarchy, England’s harsh treatment of the colonists and the mercantilism system.

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Also written in simple and plain language that common folk understood