Imperial Breakdown

European Empires 1750 - 1763

I. Colonial Administration after 1763
  A. America after the French and Indian War
     1. War Debt
  B. Attempted Solutions to Problems in America
     1. Proclamation of 1763
       a. Intended to Separate Colonials and Indians
       b. Settlers Wanted Indian land in Ohio
     2.  Quartering Acts
       a. Colonies to Provide Barracks and Supplies
  C. Indian Affairs
     1. The Cherokee War
       a. Cherokee captured wild horses
       b. settlers claimed the horses and killed 12 Cherokee
       c. Cherokee retaliated
       d. colonials burned Cherokee towns
       e. Cherokee forced to cede eastern territory
     2. Pontiac's Rebellion 1763
       a. Indians unhappy with British treatment
       b. Neolin preached return to traditional customs
       c. Pontiac called for Indian unity
       d. attack on Fort Detroit, Sandusky, St Joseph
       e.  Ottawa joined by Wyandot, Potawatomi, Miami,             Kickapoo, Chippewa, Seneca
     3. The Paxton Boys
       a. massacred Conestogas
  D. British Efforts to Control Colonial Assemblies
     1. The Parson's Cause
     2. Currency Act of 1764
       a. Colonies prohibited from printing currency
  E. British Efforts to Tax Americans after 1763
     1. Sugar Act 1764
       a. taxes on wine, coffee, indigo, sugar
       b. intended to help pay for colonial defense
     2. Stamp Act 1765
       a. legal documents needed official stamp
II. American Reaction after 1763
  A. Constitutional Conflict
  B. Political Ideology and the Issue of Taxation
  C. The Stamp Act Crisis
     1. Nonimportation Movement
     2. Sons of Liberty
     3. Stamp Act Congress
       a. asked the king for assistance
       b. asked Parliament to repeal act
III. Aftermath of the Stamp Act Crisis
   A. Declaratory Act
     1. Stamp Act repealed
     2. Parliament asserted right to make colonial laws
   B. Relations with Britain
   C. Regulator Movement
     1. South Carolina settlers wanted protection
     2. demanded effective government
IV. Townshend Crisis
   A. Townshend Duty Act 1767
     1. taxed imported glass, lead, paint, paper, tea
   B. American Nonimportation Movement
   C. Boston Massacre 1770
     1. mob attacked British sentry
     2. shooting started - 5 killed
   D. Gaspee Incident 1772
     1. colonials burned British ship
   E. Boston Tea Party 1773
    1. Tea Act of 1773
      a. lowered tax on tea
      b. colonial threw tea into Boston harbor
    2. Response to the Tea Party - Intolerable Acts
      a. Boston port closed
      b. locals had to provide housing for soldiers
      c. town meetings needed governor's consent
V. American Response to the Intolerable Acts
   A. First Continental Congress 1774
     1. colonials gathered to write protests
   B. Emergence of Whigs and Tories