viernes, 25 de enero de 2013
About Us
This blog was created for a US History class project about the US Revolution. We are working on groups of 3, the members of this group are Maria, Karla, Maria Fernanda. We will be posting new information every 2 fridays about all the problems, and the important facts and people that were involved during the revolution.
miércoles, 23 de enero de 2013
Saving the Colonies
Saving the Colonies
Stamp Act congress established a non-importation agreement. This affected the colonist merchants because they couldn't import, so eventually they couldn't get things from the British and neither could sell them things. Since their economic problems where developing and increasing very fast they had to do something drastic. As we all know, back then women were not taken seriously but this time they were necessary. Because of this, woman took a roll in colonies and they created the "Daughters of Liberty" which was a group of woman who got all together and participate in boycotts against the British because they were not in favor of taxes. This group of people got inspiration of the Sons of Liberty which was establish short time before the Daughters of Liberty.
They started creating materials for fabrics and all that kind of stuff, like clothing and homemade materials. This help the colonies in a huge way because now the need of them to buy British things was less. Woman gain a lot of respect for their effort since they saved the colonies and people started to give them more importance. For the colonist in those times that woman that were part of the Daughters of Liberty were considered as patriotic heroines because of their braveness and loyalty to the colonies. Thanks to this woman this colonies were each time less dependent of British textile, and obviously this help their economy because they didn't had to spend money buying things to the British. This woman also helped a lot during wars, they used to make uniforms and bullets for the colonist that went and fight. It is obvious that they had a huge impact in the entire world and they made the British Parliament take a second thought about de non-importation agreement.
Later in they year of 1766, parliament finally repelled the act because they were feeling like they were loosing power against woman and that the act was not working any more since colonist were still doing good. So when then they repelled the act colonist were very glad and thought that every thing was going to go great again but the the parliament didn't want to look like they were just giving up so they established another law saying that they had all the right to tax the colonies. And again the problem developed and even worst. Fights and discussion were getting more dangerous for everyone and no one knew what to do.
They started creating materials for fabrics and all that kind of stuff, like clothing and homemade materials. This help the colonies in a huge way because now the need of them to buy British things was less. Woman gain a lot of respect for their effort since they saved the colonies and people started to give them more importance. For the colonist in those times that woman that were part of the Daughters of Liberty were considered as patriotic heroines because of their braveness and loyalty to the colonies. Thanks to this woman this colonies were each time less dependent of British textile, and obviously this help their economy because they didn't had to spend money buying things to the British. This woman also helped a lot during wars, they used to make uniforms and bullets for the colonist that went and fight. It is obvious that they had a huge impact in the entire world and they made the British Parliament take a second thought about de non-importation agreement.
Later in they year of 1766, parliament finally repelled the act because they were feeling like they were loosing power against woman and that the act was not working any more since colonist were still doing good. So when then they repelled the act colonist were very glad and thought that every thing was going to go great again but the the parliament didn't want to look like they were just giving up so they established another law saying that they had all the right to tax the colonies. And again the problem developed and even worst. Fights and discussion were getting more dangerous for everyone and no one knew what to do.
Colonial Protests
Colonial Protests
Since colonists opposed to new taxes because they didn't have any representation, they resisted in three
different ways:
1. Intelectual protests
2. Economic boycotts
3. Violent intimidations
All three forces combined to make British back down. This caused a political surge.
All 9 colonies gathered together for a union. People knew them as "Sons of Liberty".
Tax collectors were violently tortured and attacked by Sons of Liberty. Because of this, no one wanted
to collect taxes because they were afraid of them. To show their power, Sons of Liberty, tear apart the
governor´s house, Thomas Hutchinson.
Problem With New Taxes
Problem With New Taxes
The problems with taxes started when parliament levied taxes new taxes on the colonists, and they had no say in what was imposed on them. The problems was not paying the taxes, it was that the colonists didn't have any representation on the parliament. The acts that causes many problems on the colonists were the sugar, quartering, and stamp acts.
The sugar act is also known as the American Revenue Act. They already had have a sugar act before, in 1764 parliament passes a modified version of this act. Prime minister George Grenville was the one who proposed to start following he sugar act for colonies to pay taxes to maintain the troops they were sending to the colonies to protect them. The protection of the colonies was expensive since they had to give food, home, and all the necessary things they needed to maintain themselves and their families at home. This act not only increased the taxes on sugar and molasses, but also in coffee, indigo and wine.
The sugar act is also known as the American Revenue Act. They already had have a sugar act before, in 1764 parliament passes a modified version of this act. Prime minister George Grenville was the one who proposed to start following he sugar act for colonies to pay taxes to maintain the troops they were sending to the colonies to protect them. The protection of the colonies was expensive since they had to give food, home, and all the necessary things they needed to maintain themselves and their families at home. This act not only increased the taxes on sugar and molasses, but also in coffee, indigo and wine.
The "Model" Governments
The "Model" Governments
The colonists believed Great Britain Had the best government. One of the things they thought
this way was because of process of common law. This consisted about the administration of
justice according to established rules and principles.Also, they had freedom of press and paid
taxes that were levied by representatives. British government was divided into three different
branches that you can see them now at days as well:
1. Executive
2. Judislative
3. Legislative
The parliament was divided into House of Lots and House of Commons. Problem with Britain was
that they didn't had a written and formal constitution, but instead, they had a list of laws and traditions
that people would follow.
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