3.3 → American independence 1770 -1783 Timeline of colonial nrowts in umerica
1. Virninia s 1607 frst csartered
Key points to remember about Britain’s colonial relatonssip colony
2. Mayflower → 1620, irst pilgriss
Colonies fundamental to sow Britain funded tseir anti arrive in Plysouth, Massachusets
frencs actiites s iital in supportnn a larne naiy and 3. Geornia s 1732. Became tse last
military csartered colony
In tse 1760’s and 1770’s s Britain altered tseir colonial
relatonssip’s s tax increases and increased renulaton of colonial commerce
Tensions afee te 7 yeaes’ wae → 1 756-1 763
Politcal s
lenislatie assemblies, controlled by loyalist s power efectiely stll in Westminster
u ‘no taxaton witsout representaton’ attude emerned towards tse Britss
Women + slaies could not in umerica
Economic s
Tradesmen receiied nood wanes / subsistence farminn was common
5 towns of oier 20000 in 1770
Britain’s impositon of import and export tarifs sad a sins impact
Setlers liied in spread out communites, 1.1 million 2 kilometres of land aiailable
Relinious s
u colonists frst loyalty was to csurcs before crown
Tse bulk of colonists were protestants but many pilnrims came to umerica to escape
persecuton (Quakers)
1. Taxaton united umerican’s anainst Britss rule
2. Many pro-independence advocates believed London had exceeded its authority and
become tyrannical
3. Britain sad litle csoice but to tax tse colonies as tsey were £140,000,000 in debt afer tse
7iyears war
4. King George III states the proclamaton line in 1763, expansion beyond the Appalachian
Mountains is discouraged to the annoyance of the colonists → it was used to halt tensions
with the natves
5. Frencs tsreat in Norts umerica lead to tse establissment of a 10000iman narrison in
umerica s Colonists did not see tsis as necessary s COST INCREuSED FROM £70000 IN
1748 TO £350000 IN 1763
6. Debt and rising colonial costs were an issue for the Britsh → they wanted to shif the
burden to the Americans
1. Virninia s 1607 frst csartered
Key points to remember about Britain’s colonial relatonssip colony
2. Mayflower → 1620, irst pilgriss
Colonies fundamental to sow Britain funded tseir anti arrive in Plysouth, Massachusets
frencs actiites s iital in supportnn a larne naiy and 3. Geornia s 1732. Became tse last
military csartered colony
In tse 1760’s and 1770’s s Britain altered tseir colonial
relatonssip’s s tax increases and increased renulaton of colonial commerce
Tensions afee te 7 yeaes’ wae → 1 756-1 763
Politcal s
lenislatie assemblies, controlled by loyalist s power efectiely stll in Westminster
u ‘no taxaton witsout representaton’ attude emerned towards tse Britss
Women + slaies could not in umerica
Economic s
Tradesmen receiied nood wanes / subsistence farminn was common
5 towns of oier 20000 in 1770
Britain’s impositon of import and export tarifs sad a sins impact
Setlers liied in spread out communites, 1.1 million 2 kilometres of land aiailable
Relinious s
u colonists frst loyalty was to csurcs before crown
Tse bulk of colonists were protestants but many pilnrims came to umerica to escape
persecuton (Quakers)
1. Taxaton united umerican’s anainst Britss rule
2. Many pro-independence advocates believed London had exceeded its authority and
become tyrannical
3. Britain sad litle csoice but to tax tse colonies as tsey were £140,000,000 in debt afer tse
7iyears war
4. King George III states the proclamaton line in 1763, expansion beyond the Appalachian
Mountains is discouraged to the annoyance of the colonists → it was used to halt tensions
with the natves
5. Frencs tsreat in Norts umerica lead to tse establissment of a 10000iman narrison in
umerica s Colonists did not see tsis as necessary s COST INCREuSED FROM £70000 IN
1748 TO £350000 IN 1763
6. Debt and rising colonial costs were an issue for the Britsh → they wanted to shif the
burden to the Americans
