REACTIONS TO BRITISH IMPERIAL POLICIES 1733-1775

Directions: Complete anything left on the chart from your book reading of America’s History pages 145-169. Be sure to give lots of specific facts and details – people, places, literature, and events – that fully explain the actions taken.

PROVISIONS OF EACH BRITISH IMPERIAL POLICY

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THE AMERICAN REACTION TO THE BRITISH POLICY

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THE BRITISH REACTION TO THE AMERIAN REACTION

. The Molasses Act (1733): This act placed a high tariff on molasses being imported by colonists from the French West Indies; it was passed in response to complaints by British West Indian planters that they were losing money.

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American merchants responded to the act by bribing and smuggling their way around the law, actions that foreshadowed the impending imperial crisis. British planters, however, could only supply 1/8 of the sugar needed by the colonists, and the colonists used this fact to justify their actions.

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The British replaced the Molasses Act with the Sugar Act in 1764, signaling the end of salutary neglect that coincided with the end of the French and Indian War.

2. Proclamation of 1763:

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3. Sugar Act (1764):

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PROVISIONS OF EACH BRITISH IMPERIAL POLICY

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THE AMERICAN REACTION TO THE BRITISH POLICY

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THE BRITISH REACTION TO THE AMERICAN REACTION

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4. Currency Act (1764):

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5. Quartering Act (1765):

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6. Stamp Act (1765):

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PROVISIONS OF EACH BRITISH IMPERIAL POLICY

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THE AMERICAN REACTION TO THE BRITISH POLICY

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THE BRITISH REACTION TO THE AMERICAN REACTION

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7. Declaratory Act (1766):

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8. Townshend Acts (1767):

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9. Boston Massacre (1770):

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PROVISIONS OF EACH BRITISH IMPERIAL POLICY

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THE AMERICAN REACTION TO THE BRITISH POLICY

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THE BRITISH REACTION TO THE AMERICAN REACTION

10. Tea Act (1773):

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11. Intolerable/Coercive Acts (1774):

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12. Quebec Act (1774):

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Moving Towards Revolution

The First Continental Congress (1774)

The Suffolk Reserves

Rejection of the Galloway Plan

Declaration and Resolves

Lexington and Concord (1775)

Causes

Effects

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