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Write 5 facts or four or more words about the causes of the revolution (refer back to your chart). You only have 5 minutes to complete this.

STAMP

ACT

Throwback ThursdayWrite five facts of four or more words about the five geographic regions of

Georgia. You have five minutes to complete this assignment!

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Georgia In the Revolution

Part 2Stamp Act, Intolerable acts, and The First Continental Congress

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Sugar Act

• Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses.

• Mercantilism!• Not only did the British Crown want to

hold to the idea of mercantilism, He had a tremendous debt from the French and Indian War.

• But because of corruption, they mostly evaded the taxes and undercut the intention of the tax — that the English product would be cheaper than that from the French West Indies.

• This hurt the British West Indies market in molasses and sugar and the market for rum, which the colonies had been producing in quantity with the cheaper French molasses

Lesson One (SS8H3a) – The student will explain the immediate and long-term causes of the American Revolution and their impact on

Georgia; include the French & Indian War (Seven Years War), Proclamation of 1763, Stamp Act, Intolerable Acts, and the

Declaration of Independence.

LONG-TERM CAUSES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION:

3. The Stamp Act

SS8H3 – The student will analyze the role of Georgia in the American Revolution.

• King George III felt that the French & Indian War had been fought to protect the American colonies. He believed, therefore, that the colonies should pay taxes to help pay off the war debt.

• The American colonists had no representatives in the British legislature, Parliament. Because they were not represented, they believed that they could not be legally taxed!!!




LONG-TERM CAUSES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION:

3. The Stamp Act


• In 1765, Britain passed The Stamp Act, a tax on paper goods that required colonists to buy government stamps for nearly all paper goods (newspapers, books, playing cards, etc.).

•THE STAMP ACT CAUSED THE FIRST MAJOR, WIDESPREAD PROTESTS AGAINST BRITISH RULE!!!

Outrage Against the Acts

• Colonial leaders made formal speeches against the act and joined to form the Stamp Act Congress.

• Average citizens reacted more violently and protested by hanging effigies of Parliamentary leaders and royal governors, attacking the homes of British officials, and tarring and feathering tax collectors.

• Some of these citizens, mainly from the middle and upper classes, joined a group called the “Sons of Liberty” in response to these taxes.

• Eventually, due to colonial pressure, the British Parliament repealed the Stamp Act, but issued others.

• These acts caused even more discontent and set the stage for the Revolutionary War

Stamp Act In Georgia • Due to Georgia’s small population,

strong royal governor, James Wright, and economic dependence on Great Britain, its response to the Stamp Act was not as violent as it was in other colonies.

• In fact, Georgia was the only colony where a small number of stamps were sold.

• Nonetheless, there was some resistance to the Stamp Act.

• Several prominent Georgians spoke out against this act and on November 6, 1765, a group affiliated with the Sons of Liberty called the “Liberty Boys” was established to oppose the Stamp Act.




Boston Massacre

• By the early 1770s, the American Colonists began to demonstrate a greater willingness to rebel:

- In 1770, a mob of angry colonists in

Boston taunted and threatened to attack a small unit of British soldiers. The soldiers fired into the mob and killed five colonists.The event was called the Boston Massacre.


• Crispus Attucks, a freed slave, was one of the five casualties.

What do you see?

Tea Act

• The act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies, and in fact imposed no new taxes.

• It was designed to prop up the East India Company which was floundering financially and burdened with eighteen million pounds of unsold tea.

• This tea was to be shipped directly to the colonies, and sold at a bargain price.

• The Townshend Duties (taxes) were still in place, however, You did not have to pay it for the tea shipped from the East India Tea Company

• Thus, this act undercut the colonist ability to sell tea• Colonists in Philadelphia and New York turned the tea

ships back to Britain. • In Charleston the cargo was left to rot on the docks. • In Boston the Royal Governor was stubborn & held the

ships in port, where the colonists would not allow them to unload. • Cargoes of tea filled the harbor, and the British

ship's crews were stalled in Boston looking for work and often finding trouble.

• This situation led to the Boston Tea Party




Boston Tea Party

- In December 1773, several colonists

protested a British tax on tea by dumping

nearly 350 chests of tea (thousands of

dollars worth) into Boston Harbor. This event was called the

Boston Tea Party.





SHORT-TERM CAUSES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION:

1. The Intolerable Acts

•King George III was outraged at the citizens of Boston for the

Boston Tea Party. In order to punish the colony of Massachusetts, a series of laws called the

Coercive Acts were passed.


THE LAWS WERE SO HARSH THAT THE COLONISTS FELT THEY WERE INTOLERABLE





1. The Intolerable Acts


1. The Boston Port Act – closed the port of Boston to trade2. The Impartial Administration of Justice Act – stated that trials for

British officials would be moved out of Massachusetts to another colony or to England

3. The Massachusetts Government Act – took away the colony’s charter and prohibited town meetings

4. The Quartering Act – required colonists to provide housing for British soldiers without compensation

Colonial Reaction

• The colonial reaction to these acts was even more intense than their reaction to the Stamp Act.

• These acts unified many colonial leaders in a belief that the British Parliament was violating their natural and constitutional rights.

Georgia’s Reaction

• Once again, Georgia’s response to the Intolerable Acts was minimal due to the colony’s divided loyalties.

• Royal governor James Wright was instrumental in slowing down the reactions of the Georgia colonist; however, those outraged by the Intolerable Acts and loyal to the patriot cause, such as Noble W. Jones and Peter Tondee, began to gather strength in Georgia.





2. The First Continental Congress

•Many of the colonies felt great sympathy and outrage for Massachusetts and

felt it was time to act.

•Representatives from the colonies met in Philadelphia in 1774 to come up with a response to the Intolerable

Acts. This meeting was the First Continental

Congress.

•The only colony not to participate was Georgia…






The First Continental Congress

Of all 13 colonies, Georgia was the most loyal to the King of England

- Georgia, founded in 1732, was the youngest colony and was, therefore, the most dependent

for protection from Indians.

- Under royal control, Georgia prospered and became extremely wealthy.

- Georgia’s Royal Governor, Sir James Wright, was extremely popular with the colonists.


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