Imperial Wars and Colonial Protest

New British Prime Minister: William Pitt

17th & early 18th centuries English government did not enforce trade laws that most harmed the colonial economy.
The purpose of salutary neglect was to ensure the loyalty of the colonists in the face of the French territorial and commercial threat in North America.
The English ceased practicing salutary neglect following British victory in the French and Indian War.

a 1763 conflict between Native Americans and the British over settlement of Indian lands in the Great Lakes area

Colonists not allowed to settle west of Appalachian Mts

Ended the French and Indian
Britain emerged as the world’s leading colonial empire.
Her possessions stretched from India to Africa to the West Indies to North America.
The British chose to take Canada from France,
rather than the prosperous West Indian sugar islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique.

AKA Revenue Act of 1764

A radical political organization for colonial independence which formed in 1765 after the passage of the Stamp Act. They incited riots and burned the customs houses where the stamped British paper was kept. After the repeal of the Stamp Act, many of the local chapters formed the Committees of Correspondence which continued to promote opposition to British policies towards the colonies. The Sons leaders included Samuel Adams and Paul Revere.

-Patrick Henry

Colonists had to provide British soldiers with food and living quarters

Created in 1765 by Lord George Grenville to raise revenue in support of the new military force. It mandated the use of stamped paper or the affixing of stamps, certifying payment of the tax on all paper documents.
This included legal documents, newspapers, pamphlets, and advertisements.

Angered over the Stamp Act, representatives of nine colonial assemblies met in New York City at the Stamp Act Congress in October 1765. The colonies agreed widely on the principles that Parliament could not tax anyone outside of Great Britain and could not deny anyone of a fair trial, both of which had been dictates of the Stamp Act. The meeting marked a new level of colonial political organization.

A riot in Boston (March 5, 1770) arising from the resentment of Boston colonists toward British troops quartered in the city, in which the troops fired on the mob and killed 5 and injured 11 people

On December 16, 1773, a band of Bostonians, disguised as Indians, boarded the ships and dumped the tea into the sea.

AKA The Coercive Acts
Parliament Passes the "Intolerable Acts"
In 1774, Parliament punished the people of Massachusetts for their actions in the Boston Tea Party. Parliament passed laws, known as the Intolerable Acts, which restricted colonists' rights. The laws made restrictions on town meetings, and stated that enforcing officials who killed colonists in the line of duty would be sent to Britain for trial (where it was assumed they would be acquitted of their charges).