| A. | New goals of empire | ||
| 1. | Acquisition of Canada and support for troops | ||
| a. | Proclamation of 1763 | ||
| b. | Quartering Act | ||
| 2. | Revenue generation | ||
| a. | Sugar Act (1764) | ||
| b. | Stamp Act (1765) | ||
| B. | Colonial response | ||
| 1. | All thirteen colonies object to Stamp Act | ||
| 2. | Many mainland colonies attack revenue clause of Sugar Act | ||
| 3. | Colonists reject distinction between "internal" and "external" taxation | ||
| A. | Intellectual and constitutional arguments | ||
| 1. | Debate over Sugar Act | ||
| a. | Limited primarily to merchants | ||
| b. | Implications | ||
| 2. | Opposition to Stamp Act | ||
| a. | Daniel Dulany's attack on "virtual" representation | ||
| b. | Benjamin Franklin and "external" taxation | ||
| B. | Popular response to new taxes | ||
| 1. | Crowd actions and Stamp Act | ||
| a. | Home of Thomas Hutchinson destroyed | ||
| b. | Riots in New York City | ||
| 2. | Townshend Duties and boycotts | ||
| C. | Renewed constitutional and popular arguments | ||
| 1. | Daniel Dulany and "virtual" representation | ||
| 2. | New colonial limitations on British power | ||
| 3. | Opposition to Tea Act | ||
| a. | Opposition to right to tax | ||
| b. | Boston Tea Party | ||
| A. | Tea Act and response (1773) | |||
| 1. | Terms and purpose of Tea Act | |||
| 2. | Refusal to accept shipped tea | |||
| 3. | Boston radicals "dump" tea | |||
| B. | British response/Coercive Acts | |||
| 1. | Massachusetts Government Act | |||
| a. | Restructured power of town meetings and upper house | |||
| b. | Implications | |||
| 2. | Boston Port Act | |||
| a. | Port of Boston closed | |||
| b. | Implications | |||
| 3. | Administration of Justice Act | |||
| 4. | Quartering Act | |||
| a. | British troops could be quartered in colonial homes | |||
| b. | Implications | |||
| 5. | Quebec Act (not a Coercive Act, but considered "intolerable" by the colonists) | |||
| a. | French law and Catholic Church established in Quebec | |||
| b. | Quebec Act unrelated to Coercive Acts | |||
| c. | Implications | |||
| C. | Radical explosion | |||
| 1. | Colonists implement nonimportation | |||
| 2. | Massachusetts Government Act nullified by colonists | |||
| 3. | Committee movement spreads throughout Northeast | |||
| D. | First Continental Congress | |||
| 1. | Meets in Philadelphia to discuss British measures | |||
| a. | Twelve colonies represented | |||
| b. | Implications | |||
| 2. | Congress repudiates Parliamentary right to legislate, except to regulate trade | |||
| a. | Congress deals directly with the king | |||
| b. | Creation of the Association | |||
| i) | Enforces trade sanctions against Britain | |||
| ii) | Implications | |||
| A. | War of rebellion becomes a war for revolution | |||
| 1. | King's refusal of Olive Branch Petition | |||
| 2. | Thomas Paine's Common Sense | |||
| a. | Denounces idea of monarchical government | |||
| b. | Criticizes imperial system | |||
| i) | "No island should govern a continent" | |||
| ii) | Implications | |||
| c. | Calls for a republic | |||
| d. | Declaration of Independence | |||
| 3. | Public opinion shifted toward independence | |||
| a. | Many colonists recognized reunification with Britain was untenable | |||
| b. | Implications | |||
| 4. | Continental Congress and the Declaration of Independence | |||
| a. | Congress approves Richard Lee's call for "independent states" | |||
| b. | Jefferson drafts and Congress amends the Declaration of Independence | |||
| i) | Twelve states (with one abstention) unanimously approve the Declaration | |||
| ii) | Implications | |||