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 Monday September 24, 2012
 WARM UP—News Notes
 KEY QUESTION—Why were the colonists
disagreeing with the British Parliament?
 We will come back to this page and answer the KQ
after taking notes
 Tape or glue your handout notes on page
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 After the French & Indian War, the relationship between
the colonists and the British started to become bitter.
 In the 1760s, Parliament (Britain’s law makers) made new
laws and restrictions that threatened the colonists’
freedom.
 King George III, the British monarch, began to tighten his
control of the American colonies.
 First, King George issued the Proclamation of 1763, which
forbade the colonists from settling beyond the
Appalachian Mountains. This law angered the colonists.
 Then, King George sent 10,000 soldiers to the colonies
to enforce the proclamation.
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 Housing 10,000 troops proved to be expensive for Britain, so
Parliament passed the Quartering Act, a law that required colonists
to house all British soldiers.
 Britain was in debt and wanted the colonists to help pay part of the
costs.
 In 1764, Parliament passed the Sugar Act, a law that placed a tax on
sugar, molasses, and other products shipped to the colonies.
 The following year, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, a law that
required all legal and commercial documents to carry an official
stamp showing that a tax had been paid. All wills, contracts,
newspapers and diplomas had to have the stamp.
 These new laws angered the colonists: Their anger focused on two
complaints: 1.) Parliament had no right to tax the colonies—that
was a job for the colonial assembly. 2.) No tax should be created
without their consent.
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 Video Clips—Proclamation of 1763, Quartering Act,
Sugar Act, Stamp Act
 Answer today’s KQ in your notebook—Why were the
colonists disagreeing with the British Parliament?
 ANSWER—Parliament was enforcing new laws and
restrictions that threatened the colonists’ freedom to selfgovern.
 NEW KQ—How did the colonists react when Parliament
took over the assemblies’ power to tax?
 Tape or glue notes onto same page
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Wednesday September 26, 2012—page 45
WARM UP—News Notes—page 45
WARM UP #2—What is a tax?
Today’s KEY QUESTION—How did the colonists
react when Parliament took over the assemblies’
power to tax?
 Tape or glue your handout notes onto page 46
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 The Sugar and Stamp Acts enraged the colonists.
Everywhere people were yelling: “No taxation without
representation!”
 Patrick Henry, a member of Virginia’s House of
Burgesses, demanded resistance.
 In 1765, delegates from the colonies formed the Stamp
Act Congress in New York and drafted a petition to the
king protesting the Stamp Act and declared that the right
to tax the colonists belonged to the colonial assemblies
and not Parliament.
 Meanwhile, some colonists formed secret societies, such
as the Sons of Liberty, to oppose British polices.
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 The colonists complaints against Parliament were bitter,
load and sometimes violent, but the most effective
protest took the form of a boycott, a widespread refusal
to buy British goods.
 Parliament finally repealed the Stamp Act in 1766, but at
the same time, Parliament passed the Declaratory Act,
which stated that Parliament had supreme authority to
govern the colonies.
 Although the colonists celebrated the repeal of the Stamp
Act, the great argument between Parliament and the
colonies had just begun.
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 Answer the KQ for today—How did the colonists
react when Parliament took over the assemblies’
power to tax?
 ANSWER—The colonists formed the Stamp Act
Congress to protest Parliament’s power to tax the
colonies. The colonists also boycotted British
goods.
 2nd KQ for today—Why did the Townshend Acts
anger the colonists?
Colonial Resistance Grows
 The purpose of the Declaratory Act was simply to reassert
Parliament’s control over all colonial affairs.
 With the Stamp Act repealed, Britain still needed money, so
Parliament passed the 1767 Townshend Acts, which placed taxes on
numerous imports to the colonies such as glass, paper, paint, lead,
and tea.
 In addition, the acts allowed British officers to issue writs of
assistance, or search warrants, to enter homes and businesses to
search for smuggled or illegal goods.
 News of the Townshend Acts sparked immediate protest
throughout the colonies. People were furious that Parliament once
again passed a tax without their consent.
 Colonists felt that only elected officials—rather than Parliament—
should have the right to create laws and taxes in the colonies.
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 Video Clip
 Answer today’s 2nd KQ—Why did the Townshend
Acts anger the colonists?
 ANSWER—They were passed without the
colonists’ consent, and because they allowed
British officials to search the colonists’ homes.