AHIS 100
The Road to Revolution
Dr. Kane
mkane2@albany.edu
Office Hrs: W 10:30-11:30 & F 11:30-12:30
Social Science 60S
maevekane.net/ahis100/lecture-slides
October 5
timeline
- 1763 - Treaty of Paris and Proclamation Line
- 1764 - Sugar Act and Currency Act
- 1765 - Stamp Act and Quartering Act
- 1766 - All but Quartering Act repealed
- 1767 - Townshend Acts
- 1768 - non-importation and dissolution of Massachusetts legislature
"virtual representation"
- House of Commons and House of Lords
- some cities just don't get direct representation - them's breaks
- Stamp Act very first attempt at direct taxation
- separation between internal and external governance
- Albany Plan of Union 1754
- Crown-in-Parliament
during the 1760s, how did people of different social classes protest the acts of Parliament?
- A. elites banded together to form private militias and recruited from the lower classes
- B. elites sent petitions to the king, merchants boycotted imported goods, and lower class people protested publicly
- C. lower class protests destroyed the property of elites and merchants regardless of whether they supported the King or Parliament
- D. elites and merchants unsuccessfully tried to get support from the lower classes against the King, but the lower classes remained loyal
how did women participate in the politics of the 1760s?
- A. American women demanded the right to vote using the argument of "no taxation without representation"
- B. American women did not participate in politics because they were thought to be too weak to have opinions outside the home
- C. American women organized boycotts of British goods and supported American-made clothing fashions
- D. American women led violent mob protests against merchants who carried boycotted British goods
1770s - things start to get real
- 1770
- February 22 - Christopher Seider
- March 5 - Boston Massacre
- 1774
- Closure of Boston
- Quebec Act
- Powder raids
- October Petition
- 1775
- April 19 - Lexington and Concord
- July 4 1775 - Olive Branch Petition
- August 23 - Proclamation for Suppressing Rebellion
Christopher Seider and the Boston Massacre
Feb 22 and March 5 1774
October Petition and Intolerable Acts - 1774
"That a loyal address to his Majesty be prepared, dutifully requesting the royal attention to the grievances that alarm and distress his Majesty's faithful subjects in North-America, and entreating his Majesty's gracious interposition for the removal of such grievances, thereby to restore between Great-Britain and the colonies that harmony so necessary to the happiness of the British empire, and so ardently desired by all America"
Lexington and Concord - April 19 1775
