UNITED STATES HISTORY I
LECTURE OUTLINE TWO
- COLONIAL PROTEST AFTER 1763
- George Grenville's goals--uniformity, efficiency and centralization
- maintain a standing army in the colonies
- raise revenues to pay debt
- enforce existing customs procedures
- raise new revenue
- new settlement policies
- Specific Acts of the new imperial policy (assaulted assembly powers and cut into colonies' autonomy)
- Proclamation of 1763
- Currency Act (1764)
- Sugar Act (1764)--indirect, external tax
- Quartering Act (1765)
- Stamp Act (1765)--direct, internal tax
- Resistance to the Stamp Act
- Virginia Resolves
- Sons of Liberty and non-importation agreements
- Stamp Act Congress--conservative nature of this protest
- REPEAL OF THE STAMP ACT AND THE DECLARATORY ACT (1766)
- CHARLES TOWNSHEND'S ASSSAULTS ON ASSEMBLIES' POWERS
- Townshend Duties-1767
- suspension of the NY legislature
- Board of Customs Commissioners
- REACTION TO THE TOWNSHEND DUTIES
- Sons of Liberty and conservatives
- Repeal of the Townshend Duties
- Onset of the Quiet Period
- OVERVIEW/ANALYSIS OF THE DEFENSE OF COLONIAL RIGHTS
- expediency
- conservative, legalistic defense
- ideological--assault upon "liberty"
- Lockean natural rights
- RADICALS' ORGANIZATION DURING THE QUIET PERIOD (1770-1773)
- Tea Act (1773) unites the conservatives and radicals
- COERCIVE (INTOLERABLE) ACTS-1774
- Boston Port Act
- Massachusetts Government Act
- Administration of Justice Act
- Quartering Act
- Quebec Act
- FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS (1774)
- the radicals gain strength
- First Continental Congress's differences with the Stamp Act Congress
- Joseph Galloway's Plan of Union
- Suffolk Resolves
- Continental Association and actions of the Committees of Safety
- Lexington and Concord
- Transformation of power into patriots' hands
- BRITISH REACTION
- 8/75--declaration of rebellion
- 10/75--American Prohibitory Act
- 1/76--Hessians
- SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS (1775)
- overview of its actions
- comparison with Stamp Act Congress and First Continental Congress
- "Olive Branch" Petition
- UNDERLYING FACTORS THAT FUELED INDEPENDENCE
- series of events
- "new men" theory
- new climate of ideas
- energizing ideology (defense of liberty against power)
- invigorating natural rights theory (Lockean natural rights)
- democratic implications of protest
All these factors changed colonial protest away from a conservative desire to preserve certain rights or conditions and toward a complete break with Great Britain