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**Theme:** Independence **Topic:** Reasons for Rebellion **Free Response Question**: Evaluate the relative importance of the following factors prompting Americans to rebel in 1776: Introductory Paragraph **Setting:** In the decade before the American Rebellion, there were several catalysts that gave American colonists sufficient reason to rebel. **Basis for Analysis**: The relative importance of these different factors will be determined upon how the colonists responded to these events and what their main grievance was. **Partitions**: The three main catalysts for rebellion included taxation by the British Parliament, restriction of civil liberties by the British Parliament and also the contrast between those things and the tradition of colonial religious freedom and political involvement. **Thesis:** While the American colonists were angry about the actually acts passed by the British Parliament, their actual anger stemmed from their belief in actual representation and the individual's role in his own government. Outside Knowledge (OK) for each Partition: delete these instructions after you have read them.
 * Parliamentary taxation
 * Restriction of civil liberties
 * The legacy of colonial religious and political ideas
 *  3-4 pieces of evidence
 * Define the most significant events, controversies, agreements
 * Specific details, concisely stated

**Partition 1:** Taxation by parliament 1764 Sugar Act- increased duty on Non-British goods entering colonies and people who smuggled had trial in Nova Scotia with no jury 1765 Stamp Act- stamps required on a variety of paper products/documents 1767- Revenue Act (part of Townshend Acts)- new duties on colonial imports- taxation without representation! 1773- Tea Act- tax on tea- led to Boston Tea Party

<span style="background-color: #808000; color: #e1ff00; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">**Partition 2:** Restriction of civil liberties by parliament 1764 Currency Act- did not let Colonial assemblies issue paper money- caused money shortage 1765 Quartering Act- required colonists to assist British army and pay for their amenities 1767 Customs Act (Townshend Act)- placed British Board of Customs in Boston, moved British troops closer to coast, created courts without jurys 1774 Intolerable Acts- 1. Boston Port Act- British Navy cut of Boston's sea commerce until tea was paid for 2. Administration of Justice Act- British solider charge with murder from Boston Massacre could have trial in Britain 3. Quartering Act- even greater responsibility for British soldiers 4. Massachusetts Government Act- No more elected Assembly in Boston- removed charter of 1961! 5. Quebec Act- favored French and Indians over colonists in Quebec land holdings

<span style="background-color: #0000ff; color: #00ff00; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">** Partition 3: ** Colonial political/religious legacies Colonial legacies about political and religious ideas:
 * 1st Great Awakening- Georgie Whitefield and Johnathon Edwards- emotions are greater than "head knowledge"- rejection of Enlightenment/Age of Reason- belief that individuals can control their fate- put evangelism and __democracy__ in Christianity
 * Penn- holy experiment (Quaker Refuge) and Charter of Privileges- law making powers to one government body
 * New Jersey- started by Berkeley and Carteret based on representative assembly and freedom of worship
 * Rhode Island- Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson- religious tolerance
 * Mayflower Compact- to form fair, civil government
 * Mass. Bay Colony- Laws and Liberties- Document of rights and responsibilities of citizens- promoted trust and limited power of government

<span style="background-color: #800080; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 23px; text-align: left;">General Information: Ideas/Events: concept of Virtual Representation- Robert Grenville 1765 Stamp Act Congress Sons of Liberty and boycott of British goods Boston Massacre Boston Tea Party Intolerable Acts 1st Continental Congress Patrick Henry- Virginia Resolves