Chapter 7: The Road to RevolutionBy: Alicia LeClair
Chapter 7: The Road to RevolutionBy: Alicia LeClair
The colonists came to America for a better life, and wanted to be independent
The Radical Whigs in England influenced political ideas
Republicanism, a new form of society
A country’s wealth was measured by its amount of gold or silver
England used the colonies
Navigation Laws: withheld the ideas of mercantilism
Enumerated goods & Privy Council Weren’t enforced very well, Americans smuggled. John
Hancock became rich, and was known as the “King of Smugglers.”
First Act, the Sugar Act of 1763
Quartering Act of 1765
Stamp Act of 1765 “No taxation without representation”
Declatory Act of 1766
“Champagne Charley” Townshend convinced Parliament to develop the Townshend Acts
British troops sent to colonies to enforce Townshend Acts
Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770
British East India Company in debt Boston Tea Party Intolerable Acts: Boston Port Act
Developed in response to the Intolerable Acts
Wrote a Declaration of Rights and sent it to Parliament in 1774, but this did nothing
Met again in 1775, preparing the defense of the colonies in case of bloodshed.
Good thinking: Battle of Lexington and Concord, “shot heard ‘round the world”
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