US History Ch 6.3
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U.S. History
Chapter 6: Conflicts in the ColoniesSection 3: Trouble over Colonists’ Rights
Raising Taxes
George Grenville: prime minister who decided to tax colonists to pay for debts from the French &
Indian War
Raising Taxes
•Sugar Act:
–Duties on molasses & sugar imported by colonists
–Law intended to raise money in the colonies
Raising Taxes
•Vice-admiralty courts granted greater powers:
–No jury trials
–Guilty until proven innocent
Taxation without Representation
“The supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property, without his consent in person or by representation. “
--Samuel Otis, The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Provided, 1764
Taxation without Representation
“The very act of taxing, exercised over those who are not represented, appears to me to be depriving them of one of their most essential rights, as freemen; and if continued, seems to be in effect an entire disfranchisement of every civil right. “
--Samuel Otis, The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Provided, 1764
Taxation without Representation
• Samuel Adams: person whose ideas helped inspire the slogan “No taxation without representation.”
Samuel Adams
Taxation without Representation
Committees of Correspondence: shared ideas & information with groups in other colonial
towns about British laws & ways to challenge them
Taxation without Representation
•Boycott—refusal to buy certain goods
The Stamp Act
•1765: Grenville proposes the Stamp Tax as an alternate tax planStamp Act stamp
The Stamp Act
Embossed Stamp
The Stamp Act
Sons of Liberty: used violent
means to stop tax collection
The Stamp Act
•Patrick Henry: presented resolutions to the House of Burgesses suggesting the Stamp Act was unjust
Patrick Henry
"Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his
Cromwell, and George the Third…”
--Patrick Henry
“TREASON!”
“If this be treason, make the most of
it." --Patrick Henry
Repealing the Stamp Act
•October 1765: Stamp Act Congress convenes
•British merchants hurt boycott & urge repeal
Repealing the Stamp Act
•1766: Stamp Act repealed
•Declaratory Act issued
Repealing the Stamp Act
…the said colonies and plantations in America have been, are, and of right ought to be,
subordinate unto, and dependent upon the imperial crown and Parliament of Great Britain;
and…Parliament…hath…full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and
validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the crown of Great Britain, in
all cases whatsoever.
--Declaratory Act, 1764
Reasons for Taxation
British Tax Laws
Colonial Response
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