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| Frontiersman get angry at lack of protection provided by Pennsylvania, and kill some peaceful Indians, they march to capital, but Benjamin Franklin convinces them to go home and that protection would be coming. |
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| Grenville's (lord of Treasury) Program |
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| Redcoats sent to America, to defend them, also raise taxes for Americans, and enforce stricter trade laws. |
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| Colonies cannot print money, led to economic problems in colonies, existing money lost all value. |
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| Maritime courts with judges appointed by crown, instead of jury, to take cases of smugglers in America. |
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| Do not buy British goods, English make own clothes, and buy from other markets. |
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| Virtual, actual representation |
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| Representation is just the interests of the whole country and empire, |
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| TO raise money for British troops in North America, Grenville's issues stamps which must be placed on all printed material, hurts businessmen, and articulate elements in community, |
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| That the general assembly of the colony, together with his majesty or his substitute have in their representative capacity the only exclusive right and power to levy taxes and impositions on the inhabitants of this colony and that every attempt to vest such a power in any person or persons whatsoever other than the general assembly aforesaid is illegal, unconstitutional, and unjust, and has a manifest tendency to destroy British, as well as American freedom. |
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| *Stamp Act Congress, 1765 |
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In New York City representatives from most colonies (most Southern colonies didn't come) meet to discuss Stamp Act.
* Only the colonial assemblies had a right to tax the colonies.
* Trial by jury was a right, and the use of Admiralty Courts was abusive.
* Colonists possessed all the Rights of Englishmen.
* Without voting rights, Parliament could not represent the colonists. |
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| Patrick Henry (1736-1799) |
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| Group of people upset about new taxes, meet under "Liberty Trees" to discuss resentments. In Boston Sons Of Liberty drive out stamp agents, others follow. |
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| Taxes directly within colonies. |
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| Taxes from trade, fares, etc. |
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| Parliament passes Declaratory act after repealing Stamp Act. This act states that Parliament has full power to make laws binding the colonies. |
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| Required colonists to provide quarters for British soldiers. |
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| **Townshend Act, reaction |
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| New Yorkers did not adhere to Quartering Act, Charles Townshend (chancellor of Treasury) suspends all acts of New York assembly until it follows it, they yield. Townshend then puts up tons of external taxes, tea, paper, paints, lead, and glass. Boards of customs set in Boston, capital of smuggling, and more admiratly courts in colonies. |
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| Essays of his are published in papers, declares that external or internal taxes, the British shouldn't profit from them. |
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| Adams goes around pubs, bars, town halls, arguing that the colonists should boycott British goods and taxation without representation was illegal. |
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