Notes: #2

● Benjamin Franklin proposed a solution: American representation in the Parliament.

● He wrote: ““If you choose to tax us,” he wrote, “give us Members in your Legislature,
and let us be one People.”
● Colonists were said to already have virtual representation.
● The House of Commons ignored American opposition and passed the act.
● British military commanders in the American Parliament also passed the Quartering
Act of 1765.
● This required the colonial government to provide barracks and food for British troops.
● The congress protested the loss of American “rights and liberties,” especially the right
to trial by jury.
● Stamp act went into effect on November 1, 1765.
● Bostonians attacked the house of Lieutenant Governor Thomas Hutchinson.
● John Hancock and John Adams, encouraged the mobs.
● Evangelical Protestants resented arrogant British military officers and corrupt royal
bureaucrats.
● Enlightenment rationalism provided Patriots with a second important intellectual
resource.
● Virginia slaves hoped to win their freedom by supporting British troops.
● The liberation of African Americans was not fulfilled for many generations.
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