Dress Rehearsal

2. Dress Rehearsal • Colonists continued to flow in to North America. • Expanded colonies, pushed west. • Came in to contact with French settlers and Natives.

3. Results in the French and Indian War. • British and Colonial Militia defeat French and Indians. • Brits kick French out of North America.

4. After the war, British are heavily in debt. • Decide the colonies should pay the debt. • British begin issuing ‘writs of assistance’ • British soldiers able to search without cause

5. British King George III • Issues the Proclamation of 1763 • Forbids colonists from settling west of Appalachian Mountains • Colonists furious, they feel King George III is acting as a despot.

6. British Parliament begins to pass laws which infuriate colonists • Quartering Act • Forced colonists to house British troops • Stamp Act • Forced all printed materials to be taxed and stamped.

7. Group of Colonists meet • Stamp Act Congress • “No Taxation without Representation!!!!” • Argued that since they have no say, they cannot be taxed.

8. Colonists decide to boycott British Goods • Refuse to buy them, thus hurting Britain economically • Large black market develops in the colonies.

9. In Boston, a radical group called the Son of Liberty forms. • Headed by Samuel Adams • Used violent methods to enforce the boycott • Tar-and-Feathering, beatings, intimidation

10. The boycott, coupled with the violence, led to Parliament repealing the Stamp Act. • Passed the Declaratory Act • Stated Parliament’s authority to pass laws on the colonies. • Mixed victory

11. In 1767, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts • Taxes imported goods – glass, tea • Boston erupts in violence, England sends soldiers, declares Martial Law

12. March 5, 1770 • British Soldiers guarding Old State House in Boston • Accosted by protesters • Begin throwing snowballs, oysters, rocks

13. British soldiers fire into the crowd. • Kill 5 colonists. • Paul Revere depicts the event and creates sympathy for the colonists.