New Trade Policies

    Over 150 years of "hands off the colonies"   So the colonies developed more American than English

   

Laissez-Faire (French, “let things alone”), in economics, policy of domestic nonintervention by government in individual or industrial monetary...   Adam Smith

    mercantile theory   colonies exist for the good of the mother country

    Colonies supply England with raw materials and then provide a market for the finished products.

    Navigation Act , Molasses Act, Woolens Act, Hat Act, Iron Act 

  Stamp Act

    Required colonists to purchase a stamp on legal documents.  This was a response to the French and Indian War.

               
      Protest against the Stamp Act
The sign in the background reads:"The Folly of England and the Ruin of America"
 

        More Stamp Act stamps
 

Read the case of the Parson's cause on page 87.  

What did Patrick Henry insist?  
    The King had no right to set aside a colonial law.

How did the court rule?  Against the House of Burgesses

 What did the jury award?  in mocking contempt one penny

Lesson Objectives

Students will learn

OBJECTIVES: Students will be able to:

1. list

2. explain the difference between

3. describe the

4. chart on a map the

5. define the terms

6. Explain the significance of

Knowledge: Recall of data.

Comprehension: Understand the meaning, translation, interpolation, and interpretation of instructions and problems. State a problem in one's own words.

Application:
Use a concept in a new situation or unprompted use of an abstraction. Applies what was learned in the classroom into novel situations in the workplace.

Analysis:
Separates material or concepts into component parts so that its organizational structure may be understood. Distinguishes between facts and inferences. 

Synthesis:
Builds a structure or pattern from diverse elements. Put parts together to form a whole, with emphasis on creating a new meaning or structure.

Evaluation:
Make judgments about the value of ideas or materials.