Chapter 4 – Empire in Transition

Loosening Ties

• A Decentralized Empire
  • Decentralized colonial administration
  • Assertive colonial assemblies
• The Colonies Divided
  • Albany Plan

The Struggle for the Continent

• New France and the Iroquois Nation
  • France’s colonial empire
  • The Iroquois Confederacy

• Anglo-French Conflicts
  • King William’s War
  • King George’s War
  • Fort Necessity
• The Great War for the Empire
  • French and Indian War
  • Seven Years’ War
  • William Pitt
    • Impressment
  • Peace of Paris
  • Effects of the conflict
  • Consequences for Native Americans

The New Imperialism

• Burdens of Empire
  • Britain’s staggering war debt
  • George III
  • George Grenville
• The British and the Tribes
  • Proclamation of 1763

The New Imperialism

• Battles over Trade and Taxes
  • Mutiny Act
  • Sugar and Currency Acts
  • Paxton Boys and Regulators
  • Persistent colonial grievances

Stirrings of Revolt

• The Stamp Act Crisis
  • The Stamp Act
  • “Virginia Resolves”
  • Stamp Act repealed

• Internal Rebellions
  • Ethan Allen
• The Townshend Program
  • Townshend Duties
  • Nonimportation agreement

• The Boston Massacre
  • Rebellious Boston
  • The Boston Massacre in popular culture
  • “Committee of correspondence”
  • This sensationalized engraving of the conflict between British troops and Boston laborers is one of many important propaganda documents, by Revere and others, for the Patriot cause in the 1770s. Among the victims of the massacre listed by Revere was Crispus Attucks, probably the first black man to die in the struggle for American independence

• The Philosophy of Revolt
  • Sources of Revolutionary ideology
  • “No taxation without representation”
  • “Virtual” and “actual” representation
  • Sovereignty debated

• Sites of Resistance
  • Political importance of colonial taverns
  • Gaspée incident
• The Tea Excitement
  • The Tea Act
  • Daughters of Liberty
  • The Boston “tea party”
  • Consequences of the Coercive Acts

Cooperation and War

• New Sources of Authority
  • Committees of correspondence
  • The First Continental Congress

• Lexington and Concord
  • “Minutemen”
  • General Thomas Gage
  • The war begins

American In the World

• The First Global War