Notes 3-2
D. Americans Response
- Pamphlets and petitions
- Bigger problem is Precedent – what comes before determines what comes after
- Authority vs. power
2. Stamp Act Congress
3. Riots – led by group that call themselves the sons of liberty
- Boston's income tax's guy was Andrew named tax collectors.
- Sons of liberty are lower class
- Samuel Adams
E. Repeal and Declaratory Act – parliament has authority to tax American
F. Lessons
1. We can work together
2. arguments don’t work; violence work
3. the British will back down
The imperial crisis (part 2)
1. taxes and protests 1767-1773
- Townshend duties much less focused, no stamp collectors to target
- Boycott – nonimporation
- Pamphlets and petitions
- Bigger problem is Precedent – what comes before determines what comes after
- Authority vs. power
2. Stamp Act Congress
3. Riots – led by group that call themselves the sons of liberty
- Boston's income tax's guy was Andrew named tax collectors.
- Sons of liberty are lower class
- Samuel Adams
E. Repeal and Declaratory Act – parliament has authority to tax American
F. Lessons
1. We can work together
2. arguments don’t work; violence work
3. the British will back down
The imperial crisis (part 2)
1. taxes and protests 1767-1773
- Townshend duties much less focused, no stamp collectors to target
- Boycott – nonimporation