(9/21) “Help! Help! I’m being Oppressed” Tension & Reform in the Colonies

Question 1

What was happening in the middle part of the 1700s?

Answer 1

Different people had different interests and beliefs which was causing tensions to build up.

Question 2

What’s the main lesson focus?

Answer 2

Three social groups during the time, which will allow us to see a broad range of series of events that brought the country to war.

Question 3

What was the lower class’s unrest/biggest argument?

Answer 3

Taxation without representation

Question 4

What was the difference in wealth-making in mainland British subjects and colonists?

Answer 4

Americans were making lots of money and paying less in taxes than mainland British subjects (about a fraction of 25%).

Question 5

What strengthens “identity” elements?

Answer 5

Having an opposition point - “we know who we are because we’re not that”

Question 6

How did the seven years war end?

Answer 6

It ended in 1763 when the British defeated the French. The British get Canada and absorb the French into their empire. In Paris, the French are pissed off because of their loss.

Question 7

How do the British recover from the seven years war?

Answer 7

They increased taxes for North Americans, to also further secure their continent/new world.

Question 8

What was the Stamp Act of 1765?

Answer 8

It changed the taxes from indirect (merchants pay) to directly (taxed on daily materials and legal documents like wills). Some stuff now had to have a revenue stamp.

Question 9

Who was Thomas Hutchinson?

Answer 9

He was a royal governor in Boston, MA and was responsible for enforcing the Stamp Act in Massachusetts.

Question 10

Who was Andrew Oliver?

Answer 10

He was appointed by Thomas Hutchinson to be a stamp tax collector.

Question 11

What happened on August 14, 1765?

Answer 11

Bostonians awoke and went into the town square to hang a dummy of Andrew Oliver (intimidation, anger, protest). As the sheriff tried to end it, the mob approached and went crazy, then later that night, they went to Oliver’s house and destroyed his house.

Question 12

What did Oliver do when they destroyed his house?

Answer 12

He resigned, which deeply upset Hutchinson.

Question 13

What happened on August 26, 1765?

Answer 13

The mob then came for Thomas Hutchinson. They demolished his house, and no one was ever punished even for a reward.

Question 14

What happened beginning in the 1740s?

Answer 14

The “Great Awakening”, which was a religious movement that swept Massachusetts.

Question 15

What was the Great Awakening?

Answer 15

It involved preaching emotional sermons regarding heaven and hell, along with equality in the eyes of God.

Question 16

What/who were regulators?

Answer 16

They were small farmers in NC, who faced the same problems as Boston: they didn’t officially ever buy their land, so people in Fayetteville found out and actually bought them and threatened the farmers to either pay rent or leave.

Question 17

What did the British expect from Native Americans after the war?

Answer 17

They expected them to act as a defeated power; they either had to have punishment or retribution.

Question 18

What 3 specific things did the British expect from natives?

Answer 18

(1) Behave and conduct themselves as good British subjects, (2) trade only within British and no longer with French, and (3) a British demanded the return of ALL war captives.

Question 19

What was the natives’ “mourning war”?

Answer 19

After the war, natives would take British captives the same age and sex of someone they’d lost, and would have them incorporated into their society, and they’d sometimes even take the same identity as the lost.

Question 20

What happens in May 1763?

Answer 20

Leader Pontiac launches a revolt against Europeans in an effort to expel them from the continent and to regain the natives land, people, and culture.

Question 21

What did King George 3 do in response to Pontiac’s revolt?

Answer 21

He issued the Proclamation of 1763, which allowed natives like Pontiac to keep their own land and said “No British will settle west of the Appalachians.”

Question 22

Why was George’s proclamation stupid?

Answer 22

(1) people were already there, and (2) the French were no longer a threat and they got their land, so why did they just fight in a war to get that land if they can’t even go there anymore?