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No Taxation Without Representation: The American Perspective
The political conflict that emerged after the Seven Years’ War forced the Americans to refine their views on the powers of colonial assemblies, the meaning of representative government, and the freedom from England’s revenue taxation. -
Sugar Act
Revised duties on sugar, coffee, tea, wine, other imports; expanded jurisdiction of vice-admiralty courts. -
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The American Revolution: From Elite Protest to Popular Revolt
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John Locke
Ideology also included a heavy emphasis on religious and moral components that most likely emanated from the Great Awakening. American political ideology found power dangerous unless countered by virtue; to believers political error resulted from corruption and sin. -
Paying Off the National Debt
When Grenville insisted that Americans help pay for these British troops with new taxes and restrictions on trade, well-to-do Americans involved in commerce quickly protested it as a scheme that deprived the colonies’ of their right to assess their own taxes. -
Ideas About Power and Virtue
Although many of the political ideals of the American colonists were based on the traditions and theories of John Locke and the Commonwealthmen, their ideology also included a heavy emphasis on religious and moral components that most likely emanated from the Great Awakening. American political ideology found power dangerous unless countered by virtue; to believers political error resulted from corruption and sin. -
Stamp Act
Printed documents issued only on special stamped paper purchased from stamp distruibtors -
Quartering Act
Colonists must supply British troops with housing, firewood, and candles. -
Declaratory Act
Parliament declares its sovereignty over the colonies in all cases. -
Townshend Revenue Acts
New Duties on flass, lead, paper, paints, tea; customs collections tighten in America -
Massachutes House of Representatives
Directed a circular letter. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five civilian men and injured six others. British troops had been stationed in Boston, capital of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, since 1768 in order to protect and support crown-appointed colonial officials attempting to enforce unpopular Parliamentary legislation -
Tea Act
Parliment gives East India Company right to sell tea directly to Americans; some duties on tea reduced -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party, a colonial response to new English regulations known as the Tea Act, led to the Coercive Acts and American rebellion. -
Coercive Acts
Closes port of Boston; restructues Massachusetts governemnt; restrictions town meetings; troops quartered in Boston; British offcials accused of crimes sent to England or Canada for trials. -
Shots Heard Around the World
Before the Continental Congress reconvened, the first blows of the American Revolution fell at Lexington and Concord. -
Prohibitory Act
Declares British intention to coerce Americans into submission; embargo on American goods; Amercan ships are seized -
General Sir WIlliam Howe
As Bristish forces stormed ashore at Staten Island in New York City, he transferred many of his inexperinces soldiers to Long Island, where they suffered a mjor defeat -
King George III
His ministers and Parliament based their stance on inaccurate information from the colonies while stubbornly defending Parliament’s “sovereign supreme power over every part of the dominions of state.”