KEY POINTS
PART 2: Complete the following chart by taking notes about key British policies toward the colonies. NOTE: Most of the information will be found on your fun pack sheet, but there are some on your textbook notes
What is an act?
Policy NameWhat the policy statesDetails/Consequences
THAT CAME FROM THE WEST
INDIES. NEW ENGLAND COULD
ONLY TRADE W/ BRITISHISLANDS / BUSINESS MEN WOULD LOSE $
B/C THEY HAD BEEN TRADING W/
THE FRENCH AND DUTCH. UPSET
WITH BRITISH GOV
STATED COLONISTS COULD NOT
PRINT OR USE THEIR OWN $.
THEY HAD TO USE “HARD”
CURRENCY / The colonies protested against this.
They suffered a trade shortage with Great
Britain to begin with and argued that the
shortage of hard capital would make the
situation worse.
ALL GOODS SHIPPED TO AND FROM THE COLONIES HAD TO BE CARRIED
IN SHIPS THAT HAD BEEN BUILT
IN ENG OR ENG COLONIES / AMERICAN COLONISTS FREELY
IGNORED THE POLICY
TEMPORARILY CLOSED ALL LANDS
WEST OF THE LINE (MT.LINE)TO
COLONIAL SETTLEMENT OF ENG COLONISTS / Many in the colonies felt that the object was
to pen them in along the Atlantic seaboard
where they would be easier to regulate.
Colonists could not help resentment when
what they perceived to be their prize was
snatched away from them.
COLONISTS HAD TO PAY MORE
FOR IMPORTED ITEMS FROM THE
WEST INDIES SUCH AS WINE, MOLASSES, AND SILK / COLONISTS SMUGGELED MOLASSES
INTO THE COLONIES
POSSESSED BY BRITISH TAX
COLLECTORS, THIS GAVE THEM
LEGAL PERMISSION TO SEARCH
FOR ILLEGAL OR SMUGGELED GOODS / COLONISTS RESENTED THEM
AND COMPLAINED LOUDLY
LAW REQUIRING THE COLONISTS
TO GIVE FOOD AND HOUSING TO
BRITISH TROOPS IN AMERICA / MADE THE COLONISTS VERY
ANGRY
COLONISTS HAD TO PAY A TAX
ON STAMPED ITEMS SUCH AS
NEWSPAPERS, PLAYING CARDS,
WILLS, ETC. / SAID THAT THE BRITISH GOV COULD
NOT TAX THEM, ONLY THE COLONIAL
GOV COULD. THE STAMP CONGRESS
WAS FORMED AND THE SONS OF
LIBERTY TO PROTEST THE ACT. NC
KEPT THE STAMPED STUFF OFF SHORE
PLACED TAXES ON TEA, GLASS,
PAPER, AND PAINT / MANY COLONISTS REFUSED TO PAY
THE TAXES OR TO BUY ANY GOODS
MADE IN BRITAIN (BOYCOTT)
CUTS THE PRICE OF ENG TEA IN
½, BUT HAD A TAX THAT SUPPORTS
BRITISH TROOPS IN AMERICA / BOYCOTTS ON ENG TEA, THE
BOSTON TEA PARTY
DONE IN RESPONSE TO THE BOSTON
TEA PARTY. CLOSED THE BOSTONHARBOR UNTIL THE TEA WAS PAID FOR IN FULL, AMERICAN COULDN’T HOLDTOWN
MEETINGS & WERE FORCED TO HOUSE THE
BRITISH SOLDIERS. ANY BRITISH
COMMITTED CRIMED TRIED IN ENG / WITH THE PORT CLOSED, NO FOOD COULD
BE SHIPPED TO BOSTON. FOOD HAD TO BE
SENT OVERLAND. COLONISTS PROTESTED
AND CONTINUED TO ORGANIZE