1763
Popular Sovereignty
Final right to rule is retained by the people themselves
America wants PS but not easy
Britain number 1 nation in world
Tories
Believers that the crown should not be the subject of the will of the people
Loyalists
Whigs
Believe that crown and parliament can rule together
Sugar act, established 63, enacted 64
To pay for F+I War
Increased tax on sugared items
Molasses
1763: The Paxton Boys
Decide to occupy start of Ohio Valley
Encounter Native American resistance
Decide to fight the Indians
Pennsylvania Assembly ordered arrest of Paxton boys for fighting Indians
PB's marched back east to Philly in protest
Benjamin Franklin calmed PB's down
Showed them how to file a formal complaint
Told them to create representation for them
Less representation for settlers farther West, so far away from colony capitals
Proclamation Line
Line at Alegany River
Past that line, no protection or representation
People still Crossed
Currency act
Designed to punish Virgina
VA wanted to create there own legal tender
Britain wants them to use British currency
Br Nullifies all assemblies that talk about currency
May 1764, Boston MA
Denounced theme of no taxation w/o representation
Call upon colonies to unite in opposition to sugar act, currency acts, proclamation line
Rebel with non-importation
NI only works if everyone agrees on it
Direct Tax
Stamp Act of 65
All paper goods are taxed
All paper goods must have stamp or illegal
Newpapers, Legal Documents, Playing Cards, Pamphlets, Licenses, Bills
Can't boycott paper
Enforced by stamp acts agents
Damaging to lawyers, Teachers, Publishers, anyone who works, especially educated
Sons of Liberty, 65
Organized group to oppose the stamp act
Used violence to make Stamp Act Agents resign
Forced merchants not to import British goods
Boston, August 1765, Vice Admiral of records was faced by Sons of Liberty
Home ransacked
Business burned
Thomas Hutchinson, lead justice had house ransacked
Patrick Henry
Writes on behalf of educated class
Treason Speech
Threatened King
Fans the flame of revolution
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