Leading to Revolution

8-2.2 Summarize the response of South Carolina to events leading to the American Revolution, including the Stamp Act, the Tea Acts, and the Sons of Liberty.

1. Events leading to the American

Revolutiona) British crown and Parliament impose

taxes on colonies to pay for F/I War.

b) Colonists believed was right of their colonial assemblies to impose taxes

The Road to Revolution…

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1. Most important tax imposed by

Parliament (affected all colonies)2. Placed a tax/duty on paper

a) legal documents, playing cards and newspapers colonists paid directly.

b) Taxes prior to this indirect taxes, paid by the merchants.

3. Incensed colonists protested “No taxation without representation”

a) Colonists no representative in Parliament b) no colonial voice in Parliament

The Stamp Act

4 Colonists wanted own colonial

assemblies to impose taxes to continue.

a) Organized Stamp Act Congress b) boycott on British goods

a) led to the repeal of the Stamp Act.

c) Organized the Sons and Daughters of Liberty in order to protest British taxes.

The Stamp Act

The Stamp Act was passed in Parliament

Protesting against the Stamp Act

Sons and Daughters of Liberty

1. The Sons of Liberty enforced boycotts

through persuasion and intimidation.2. The Daughters of Liberty engaged in

spinning bees (spun own thread and yarn) and refused to buy British products, finding substitutes instead.

Sons and Daughters of Liberty

1. Indirect tax through the Townshend

dutiesa) Import taxes on paint, paper, tea, and a

variety of other goods.b) Colonists unwilling to accept import tax

a) designed to collect revenue, not regulate trade.

c) Colonists boycotted and Townshend duties were repealed except for the tax on tea.

British Impose More Taxes

1. The Tea Act was not a tax

a) gave British East India Company exclusive rights to sell tea in colonies

1) Parliament wanted to help company2) Parliament—legislature of Great Britain

2. Colonists boycotting tea because of tax imposed under Townshend Acts.

The Tea Act

3. The Sons of Liberty feared availability

of cheap tea would threaten effectiveness of boycott.

4. In Boston they threw tea overboard. (Boston Tea Party)a) Resulted in passage of the Intolerable

Acts.b) Colonists sent delegates to a Continental

Congress in order to address the problem of the Intolerable Acts.

The Tea Act

The Tea Act

1. 1774, representatives from across

South Carolina met in Charles Town a) to elect representatives to the Continental

Congress to be held in Philadelphia.b) also established a General Committee of

99 to govern the colony instead of the royal governor.

The Continental Congress

2. Under leadership of Henry Middleton of

SCa) was elected its presidentb) established a non-importation and non-

exportation agreement (a colony wide prohibition against any trade with Great Britain)

c) SC delegates successfully argued rice was essential to survival of colony, trade in rice was allowed.

The Continental Congress

1. After Lexington and Concord, Second

Continental Congress met in Philadelphia.

a) Lexington and Concord—1st military engagement of American Revolutionary War

“The shot heard ‘round the world”