Notes

sugar act acutally lower than molasses act but was more enforced so looked like increased taxes

everyone from all the classes buys paper products (playing cards, bills, contracts) from the stamp act
-boycott, refused to buy stamped products or get their things stampped ( this is when u get no taxation without rep )
-andrew oliver(tax collector) and thomas hutchinson(mass govenor): men from mens clubs prop up effigies beat it up and destroyed houses
--very unorganized attack
--soon u get Samael admas, business owner, who do a lot more organized strikes
--protests, and violence

john admas argues that as english men they should ahve rights to reperesentatio, cites magna carta
-gives colonists a legal voice (rather then senseless violence)

patrick henry: rich farmer, memmber of virignia HoB, him working with John Adams is an example of uninisn from all parts of colony
--Boston is bascially capital of northern colonies, and virigina biggest of south

--hwen bost shut down, puts presencdence that parlimetn oculd do whatever he wants, so unison against brit

meeting in new york == stamp act congress (9 colonists) send formal letter to king which is ignored
-but colonies are coming toghetr, unity,

all the boycotts from stamp act made british merchants in england getting bottom line cut, pissed at parliment
-enlgish people pettiton and parliment repeals
-colonists still feel like they got ignored (their peititon was)

even tho it was repealed, declatory acts not material states parliment has right to put any taxation on colonies w/o their consenet

passes townshed acts: paper, lead., oil, glass, paint
in addition to giving custom officials wide latitude to enforce the taxes and levy punishments on smugglers
-revenue act gives general warrant to search for smuggled acts
HWY US WE'RE ENGLISH TOOOOOO

new york restraining act 1767: until ny complied w/ quartering act, its assmebly was not allowed to do any thing put royal gov that was only alllowed to pass policies
-threatened to do with others

noncomspution movement and homespoun movement
townshead acts are so broad, coudlnt just boycott = had to make so many diff things so thats what they do
colonies starting to make goods for themselves
-brit do not like it

daughters of liberty = homesspuning and psuhign for nonconsupmption

letters from a farmer in virigna (john dickonson) = wriitng as tho he's a humble farmer and states that it is uncosntiouonal to their rights as englishmen, appeals to enlghintment ideals
-mass produces via printing presses


parliment revokes townshead act, keeps the one on tea tho
-through resitance they were settling more and more trrops in boston to put down reblelliosn
---------boston massacre (8 soliders and 400 col) colonists throiwng and reaching
--crispus atticus challenign soliders to shoot him
-----propagndized depiciton (seemed as if it was murder in cold blood)
---------suggests that brits cared more for dogs than people

--have trial
---soliders defended by john adams
-brit soliders get to go free and trial by jury
-john adams improves image of patriot movement as opposed to sam adams viole nce

tea act is not tax on tea from townshead acts = tea act
many americans were getting tea from non british
== big probelm
tea act does
1. artiifcally lowered price of brit tea, by removing taxes from brit east india compnay on trading with colonies
2. reinforced non importation laws alr in place. smugglers cracked down
= brit makes monopoly

boston tea party
- having never seen any natives, assumed native americans represtente freedom without laws (natural freedom) noble anarchy
-rturn to this without brti

intolerable acts
a. harbor gets shut down until reperations were paid
= mad, for this small group they're made to apid and all are punsihed
b. (MA governor act) charter gets evoked, becomes under direct authority of king via ryal govenor
= no self governeanmetn and onyl 1 town meetign per year
=========fredoom to assembly 1st ammendment
c. quartering act (previously before for any housing, now they can stay in private house)
===ppl in boston exagerated "eveyrone ahd a slider in in it)
d. adminstiration of justice act
====any eng officals in america got to go back home to be tried for crime (didnt get prosecuted, could jsut excape)
e. quebec act


WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING N)OW AFTER THESE ACTS

previously stamp act was 9 colonists
now u have multiple from every colony to meet at boston (first cont congress)
commities of correspondence (communicatioN)
sent letters to parliment (declaration of sentiments anddec of rights/greviences)
-give hornoifcs to king, just want reform
-----GET IGNORNED

we need to fight, stockipiling weapons, miltias form
people are trainign and collecting data of movement of britsih soliders
clearly ready even before

mr patrick henry gives speech "war is inevitable and let it come" GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH