4th Period Notes ~ Sept 28th

• The essay data worksheet is due on friday.
• Briefly went over the Regulator Movements in the Carolinas. Just know that South Carolina had an absent government while North Carolina had corruption.
• The Tea Crisis- Due to the underselling and smuggling of Dutch tea, Britain passed the Tea Act of 1773 to save the West Indian Company from bankruptcy. The act repealed the import duties of tea in England and gave the company a monoploy on the shipping and distribution of tea in America. To resist the act, the colonists threatened all tea ships from landing in any ports.
• In Boston, Governor Hutchinson refused to grant clearance papers to three ships, forcing them to land and pay the duty. With no way to blockade the landing, radicals disguised as Indians dumped 342 chests of tea in to the Boston Harbor. This distruction of private property shocked both Britian and America.
• Intolerable Acts:
• Boston Part Act- closed the port untill the Bostonians paid for the tea (about 11,000 punds)
• Quartering Act- permitted soldiers to quarter on private property
• Administration of Justice Act- permitted British soldiers or officers who have been charged with a crime to be tried in another colony or in England
• Massachusettes Government Act- overturned the Massachusettes Charter of 1691
• Quebec Act- established French civil law and the Roman Catholic Church in Quebec; provided trial by jury in a criminal court; gave legislative power to an appointed governer and council but not the power to tax; extended the boundaries between the Great Lakes and the Ohio River
• Timeline: nonimportation continued; Continental Congress summoned; contribution for all colonies to Boston due to the isolation; Massachusettes Provincial Congress established; creation of minutemen; build up of arms