Where did colonists get the idea that they had rights

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Where did colonists get the idea that they had
rights?

• 1.) tradition of salutary neglect
• 2.) English constitution
• 3.) Enlightenment

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• Parliament had, hath, and of right ought to
  have, full power and authority to make laws and
  statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind
  the colonies and people of America, subjects of
  the crown of Great Britain, in all cases
  whatsoever.

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• His Majestys subjects in these colonies are
  entitled to all the inherent rights and
  liberties of his natural born subjects within the
  kingdom of Great Britain. It is inseparable
  essential to the freedom of a people, and the
  undoubted rights of Englishmen, that no taxes be
  imposed on them but with their own consent, given
  personally or by their representatives. . .the
  only representatives of the people of these
  colonies are persons chosen therein by
  themselves, and that no taxes ever have been, or
  can be constitutionally imposed on them, but by
  their respective legislatures.

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Summary Colonial Reactions

• I.) Formation of groups
• A.) Congresses (Stamp Act, 1st Continental)
• 1.) petitions
• 2.) boycotts
• 3.) Assembling militia (after 1st
  Cont. Cong)
• B.) vigilante groups (Sons of Liberty,
  Committees of Correspondence)
• 1.) threats
• 2.) destruction of property (B. Tea
  Party)
• 3.) personal harm (tar feathering)

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Summary of Colonial Reactions

• 1.) Petitions
• 2.) Boycotts
• 3.) Terroristic tactics
• A.) threats
• B.) destruction of property
• C.) physical attacks (tar feathering)

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Summary Colonial Concerns

• Concern Infringement of liberties
• -Taxation w/o representation
• -others colonial legislatures weakened,
  trial by jury suspended,
• Presence of Br. soliders during
  
• peacetime

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THE BLOODY MASSACRE?
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• In 1773, Parliament repealed all of the Townshend
  Acts, except the one on tea. Britain had all of
  the excess tea of the British East India Company
  sent to America to prevent the company from going
  bankrupt. Even with a tiny tax attached, the
  British tea remained cheaper than smuggled
  American tea. American tea smuggles were
  outraged that their business was imperiled by the
  cheap tea. Others were angry that Americans were
  being seduced into paying a British tax. In
  December 1773, Sons of Liberty dressed as Indians
  boarded a ship in Boston Harbor and emptied every
  crate of tea into Boston Harbor. As a result of
  this destruction of property, Britain passed the
  Coercive Acts to punish Boston.

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• This is a political cartoon about the 1774
  Intolerable Acts. The Intolerable Acts were a
  group of laws passed by the British Parliament to
  punish Boston for the destruction of British tea
  during the Boston Tea Party. The Intolerable
  Acts choked Boston economically by closing the
  harbor. The artist depicts this economic
  punishment by showing Boston as a cage full of
  starving prisoners who are eating raw fish that
  other colonists are feeding them. Other parts of
  the Intolerable Acts restricted Massachusettss
  self-rule. The cartoon is from a colonial point
  of view because it shows the desperation of
  Boston and the overly plentiful supply of British
  military force in the background. As a result of
  the Intolerable Acts, the colonies met at the
  First Continental Congress which wrote petitions,
  passed boycotts, and assembled colonial militia.
  It was the final of the controversial British
  laws before the firing of the first shots at
  Lexington and Concord.

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Portrait of Samuel Adams (Supposedly too ugly to
put on the beer label that bears his name. They
used Paul Revere instead.)