ECON 113 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Somerset V Stewart, Stamp Act Congress, Intolerable Acts
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American scriptures: the declaration of independence, and the constitution. After the seven years" war, britain was in debt and began levying various taxes on the colonies: Sons of liberty forms to oppose the act. 1765: stamp act congress meets to pass resolutions declaring that the english parliament did not have the right to tax the colonies. 1766: repeal of the stamp act, passage of the declaratory act reaffirming parliamentary authority over the americas. 1767: townshend duties differentiated between external & internal taxes. British troops kill five protesters throwing stones. 1772: samuel adams organizes the committees of correspondence to coordinate resistance. 1772: london court frees james somersett, a massachusetts slave whose owner had brought him to england. 1773: coercive acts/intolerable acts closing the boston harbor subjects colonies to direct royal rule. 1774: first continental congress denounces the intolerable acts professes loyalty to king george iii urges him to resist parliament"s oppressive measures.
