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British Colonial Policy Change
end of salutary neglect:
british unofficial policy of relaxed enforcement of trading laws which allowed colonial economy to become very successful, came to an end. needed to collect more revenue to pay off massive war debt. -
Sugar Act
-increases enforcement of tax collection, specifically cracking down on smuggling of sugar and molasses
-colonists used to salutary neglect don't like change -
Stamp Act
-england requires a tax on all printed materials, stamp on the document proved that the tax was paid
-colonists outraged at this tax was purely for british revenue
-colonists complained they had no parliamentary representation (no one from colonies had a say in taxes being placed on them)
-stamp act congress met in new york decided to ban british goods until act was repealed
-sons of liberty organize boycott in boston -
Quartering Act
-colonists were required to pay for and provide housing and supplies for english soldiers stationed in their colonies
-drinks, food, quarters, fuel, transportation -
Declaratory Act
-removes the stamp act
-declares english power to pass or veto any colonial law they want -
Townshend Acts
-tax on paper, lead, glass, tea, paint
-colonist boycotted again, claimed they were taxed without consent -
Boston Massacre
-rowdy colonists gather and taunt British soldiers
-after an altercation, the soldiers fired on the colonists
-angered citizens used the incident to incite colonists against british -
Tea Act
-england sends a surplus of cheap tea to the colonies which technically made tea cheaper
-colonists did not like england's attempt to control one of their most used commodities and were sick of new taxes -
Boston Tea Party
-colonists organized by the sons of liberty snuck aboard a ship in boston harbor and duped the modern equivalent of four million dollars worth of tea into the harbor -
Intolerable Acts
-closed the port of boston until the tea was paid for
-took away massachusetts right to self-govern -
1st Continental Congress
-12 of the 13 colonies gathered to discuss a response for the intolerable acts
-decide to boycott and meet again a year later