Salutary Neglect

1. Identify three of the following and evaluate the impact of each of the three on the coming of the American Revolution

The Stamp Act Congress: brought together in NYC 27 distinguished delegates from 9 colonies debated and drew up a statement of their rights and grievances and beseeched the king and Parliament to let go of the Stamp Act. This congress brought around the same table leaders from the different and rival colonies. This was a “significant step of inter-colonial unity.” Wide spread adoption of non-importation. Without unity, a w ar would be drastic just like how the Indians tried to fight off the colonists, but because they weren’t unified, the colonists won. Gave men and woman chances to participate in colonial protests. Public defiance helped spread angry resistance against the British. This fire that was sparked in the people’s hearts was due to the realization that the British was trying to raise revenue through direct taxation of all colonial commercial and legal papers, and newspapers, pamphlets, cards, almanacs, and dice. This revenue would be used to pay off the debt the British owed in the French and Indian war.

In U.S. colonial history, the British parliamentary attempt to raise revenue through direct taxation of all colonial commercial and legal papers, and newspapers, pamphlets, cards, almanacs, and dice. The devastating effect of Pontiac's War (1763-64) an colonial frontier settlements added to the enormous new defense burdens resulting from Great Britain's victory (1763) in the French and Indian War. The British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir George Grenville, hoped to meet at least half of these costs by the combined revenues of the Sugar Act (1764) and the Stamp Act, a common revenue device in England. Completely unexpected was the avalanche of protest form the colonists, who effectively nullified the Stamp Act by outright refusal to use the stamps as well as by riots, stamp burning, and intimidation of colonial stamp distributors. Colonists passionately upheld their rights as Englishmen to tax only by their own consent through their own representative assemblies, as had been the practice for a century and a half. In addition to nonimportation agreements among colonial merchants, the Stamp Act Congress was convened in New York (October 1765) by moderate representative of nine colonies to frame resolution of "rights and grievances" and to petition the king and Parliament for repeal of the objectionable measures.