HIST 1311 1st Edition Lecture 9 Outline of Last Lecture - Imperial Warfare - The New EmpireOutline of Current Lecture - Colonial Crisis- American Revolution Current LectureColonial Crisis Boston Massacre (1770) - Response - Lord North and the Townshend duties Tea Act (1773) - East India Co. - Tea Parties - Image of the Indian - 10k euros in tea Coercive Acts (1774) - "Intolerable Acts" - Quebec Act These 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.- Boston Harbor - Colonial Legislatures - Military Trials (Eng.) - Quartering American Revolution 1. Laboratories of Republicanism A. Background: England signs another treaty of Paris in 1783. After the French and Indian war England does not want to fight the war anymore. English will recognize states as independent and give them the rest of the land that they got to the West. Now that the states are independent, the colonists need a government to take care of England's old enemies. Albany plan- ben frank to militarize and have a standing army, some kind of government, wanted the representation of the people, regulating expansion, currency, and parliament can tax to raise money for war/defense. 1. Old charters- House of Burgesses, the wealthy are in charge. They have different values from each other state. after they break away they reconstitute the old charters which doesn't unify them at all 2. Power of written words- to make sure the English doesn’t go back on what they said and that they actually stay independent. First they set up state
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