POSC150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Limited Government, Tea Act, First Continental Congress

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POSC150
• Professor: Professor Hickel

Document Summary

Economic and political forces within pre-revolutionary america. Profit - and this required political and social stability. Don"t want to change the colonial system. Loose alliance between merchants, planters, and royalists for much of our colonial history. Changes to british tax and trade policies caused a split between merchants/planters and royalists. Permitted a new alliance between merchants/planters and radical forces among commoners. 1760s - britain imposed new (though relatively modest) taxes on colonists. In response to heavy debt incurred during french and indian wars. Taxes most directly affected merchants and planters. Amid social unrest in the colonies, the britain rescind these taxes. Merchants and planters were satisfied and sought to restore order and stability by supporting the crown. They wanted to go back to making a profit. Radical elements were now embroidered and increased calls for an end to colonial rule.