HIST 105 1nd Edition Lecture 13 I II I II III Outline of previous lecture Society a French and Indian war b Parliament c John Locke Empire a Tension b Acts c Massacre Outline of current lecture Leading up to revolution a Tea act b Boston tea party c Intolerable acts d Quebec act e First continental congress Tomas pain a Common sense Dec of independence a Rights b Grievances 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 Tea Act 1773 East India Company o Import tea from India and China o Started to lose money Middlemen will send to merchants Cut out middle men Small tax on tea being imported to colonies o Colonists will get it for a cheaper even though they were taxed Afraid that would tax everything Cheap tea Merchants object o Middle men cut out they were angry Boston Tea party Colonists dressed as Indians Dumped tea in Boston harbor Samuel Adams praised the action o Cousin of John Adams Reaction Boston Tea Party Intolerable Acts Closed port of Boston Restricted local courts o Soldiers Restricted town meetings to once a year Quartering of army troops o Soldiers slept in houses of the colonists Quebec Act 1774 Made up of Catholics and French They were living past the Appalachian mountains Colonists were upset because the could live pats but the colonists couldn t Effects of Quebec Act 1774 Expanded territory Catholicism American colonists object 1774 First Continental congress john Adams Samuel Adams George Washington Patrick henry Richard henry lee Work in Progress Some agreement Some disagreement Patrick Henry I am not a Virginian but an American o By extension they are not Englishmen Shots Fired in 1775 Seize colonial armaments o Colonists have tons of powder o Started in Lexington to pick up the arms minute men o Concord Larger fight than lexington British had to withdrwa form the battle May 1775 Continental army Gen George Washington o Contradicts Lost French and Indian war British Measures Prohibitory Act Interdicted colonial trade o Blocked ports o Seized colonial ships Virginias Lord Dunmoreo freed slaves if they took up arms against their masters Thomas Pain Common Sense o 1776 o Rejected monarchy Doesn t do anything good for the people New Social and Political order Appealed to commoners o Literate and illiterate read it Declaration of Independence RIGHTS GRIEVANCES Rights We the people Men are equal Endowed with rights o Life o Liberty o Pursuit of happiness Governments o Derive powers from the consent of governed the people o Right of people to alter or abolish the government Grievances Dissolved representative houses Judges depended on him Kept standing armies Cut off trade Abolished our laws o Imposed his A note on slavery No mention of slavery Dec of independence o Talks about free men no discussion on slavery
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