HIST 2610 1st Edition Lecture 14 Outline of Last Lecture Britain’s Attitude Towards its ColoniesOutline of Current Lecture Boston Massacre Tea ActIntolerable ActsQuebec ActReaction to the Intolerable ActsFirst Continental CongressLexington and ConcordCurrent LectureBRITAIN'S NEW POLICYBoston Massacre (1770)1. British troops2. 5 Killed, 6 wounded - throwing rocks!3. ReactionTea Act (1773)1. British East India Company in distress. The boycotts had caused them problems and they were in financial distress. Certain members of parliament were involved with them. So, they proposed an Act that would help them if they agree to it - sort of a blackmail situation! This was not considered to be corrupt or illegal, but rather known as personal or private legislation. This Act allowed them to ship their tea directly to the British Colonies without havingto send them through England first. Therefore, there was a very heave tax on tea. 2. Parliament passed Tea act to save company from ruin3. Act allowed BEIC to ship tea to America without paying the existing heavy duty in BritainThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.4. BEIC able to undersell colonial importers of tea as well as smugglers of foreign tea.5. Reaction: This is a problem. How are other tea makers going to sell their tea. Their prices won't be as good as the BEIC so how will they be able to compete?A) colonial merchants denounced Act because:-Gave BEIC exclusive control of the tea trade in America-would ruin many American tea merchants-could set precedent for Parliament granting similar rights to other British firms-this would put all colonial merchants out of businessIntolerable Acts (1774)1. Parliament moved quickly to punish MA for the Boston tea party2. Passed 4 coercive laws that the colonists called the intolerable acts3. Measures included-port of Boston closed to all commerce until colonists paid for destroyed tea- people of MA deprived of right to elect officials select jurors or hold meetings-Thomas gage, Brit, commander in chief in America is appointed as the military governor of MA-British soldiers and officials accused of crimes in MA to be tried in Britain-new Quartering ActQuebec Act1. Extended the boundary of the Canadian of Quebec southward to the Ohio River2. Not intended as part of Coercive Acts.3. Considered another "intolerable act" by colonists because:-gave to Canada territories claimed several of the 13 colonies -French style centralized governmentReaction to Intolerable Acts1. Ruin of Boston imminent2. other colonies rallied to support of Boston3. Measures adopted by Brit. government to punish MA endangered the liberties of all the colonies4. MA was "suffering in the common cause of America" 5. United action necessary- seems to be widespread agreement that they needed to unite against congress. They need to get together and determine what must be done.The First Continental Congress (1774)- September 1774-Issued Declaration of Rights and Grievances-"the rights of Englishmen" they argue that they are entitled to all the rights of Englishmen because they are Englishmen. Colonial legislatures had the exclusive right to levy taxes. -exclusive right to levy taxes on the colonists?-denounced the intolerable actsLexington and Concord-Expansion of MA militia-Minutemen-MA assembly met in secret and prepared for war-Lexington and Concord?-Colonists learned of Gage's plan-Paul Revere and William Dawes-Lexington -April 19, 1775-18 colonists killed or wounded in exchange of gunfire-on to concord-British sniped at by colonists as they marched back to Boston -4000 colonists participated in the action that day -273 British casualties. 93 colonial
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