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What were the advantages of the Proclamation of 1763?

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  • control westward movement and avoid conflicts with north america
  • keeping colonists close
  • Britain could control fur trade
  • Britain sent 0000 troops to colonies to protect these interests
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How do you think the colonists felt about the Proclamation of 1763?

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Angry

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Help!

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Britain needed help supporting the new troops in the colonists to pay off the debt of the FAIW (140 million pounds)

  • new taxes & enforced taxes
  • writs of assistance
  • prime minister-smuggling wrong
  • smugglers-innocent-american juries
  • custom officers -any location-smuggled goods
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How were the trials conducted?

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they were also now conducted by naval courts w/o juries

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What did the Sugar act do?

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  • lowered tax on molases
  • prime minister hoped to encourage colonists to pay tax instead of smuggling
  • smuggled goods could be seized w/o going to court
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What is the stamp act?

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-tax placed on all printed material including newspapers, wills & playing cards

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How did opposition feel about the sugar act and stamp act?

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  • parliament interfered into colonial affairs by taxing them directly
  • parliament was taxing them without their consent
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What protest did Patrick Henry lead

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  • persuaded the House of Burgesses to take action

- Virginia passed a resolution that only they could lay taxes on their citizens

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What protest did Samuel Adams lead

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  • started the Sons of Liberty (an organization of protest)

- citizens also rose up burning effigies that represented the tax collectors

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What are effigies?

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rag figures

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What happened when the colonists protested?

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  • delegates from 9 colonies met in NY in the Stamp Act Congress
  • they petitioned the King saying that colonists could only be taxed by their own governments
  • citizens boycotted British and European goods (thousands of merchants pledged not to buy any goods from Britain)
  • British merchants lost so much business that they begged Parliament to repeal the Stamp Act
  • Parliament did
  • Passed Declaratory Act (Britain had the right to tax and make decisions for the Colonies “in all cases”)
  • The Townsend Acts (Parliament passed external taxes on imported goods)
  • merchants had to pay taxes on goods on glass, paper and tea
  • Daughters of Liberty created homemade dresses & clothing
  • more manufacturing in America
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What does repeal mean?

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to cancel

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what does boycotted mean?

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to refuse to buy

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What is the Writs of Assistance?

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Officers enter any location to search for smuggled goods

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What is the Sugar Act?

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lowered a tax on molasses to encourage

paying tax

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what is the stamp act?

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tax on all printed materials

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what is the townshed acts

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tax on all imported goods

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why did the colonists oppose the stamp act?

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taxing without consent and direct trade

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how do colonists protest?

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  • boycott
  • burning effigies
  • production
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What happened when Britain got nervous?

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  • protests made British officials nervous
  • redcoats were sent to Boston
  • colonists saw this as infringement on right
  • taxed w/o consent
  • British troops were controlling the cities
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What were the redcoats like?

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  • rude
  • poor, stole goods
  • took second jobs which created competition for work for colonists
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What do you know about the Boston Massacre?

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  • colonial leaders used the killings as propaganda

- Sam Adams called the event a massacre

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How did the colonists rebel after the Boston massacre?

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  • colonists called for another boycott on British goods
  • Britain repealed taxes, except for the one on tea
  • sam adams revived Boston’s committee of correspondence which was used in earlier protests
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What was the Boston Tea Party?

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  • British East India company facing ruin in 1773
  • to save company, Parliament passed the Tea Act (this gave the company a monopoly of trade for tea in America) (a monopoly is sole control)
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What is a monopoly?

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sole control

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What did the Tea Act do?

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  • basically let the British East India company sell right to shop keepers
  • started another boycott
  • British ships still tried to deliver the tea
  • 3 ships docked by government
  • the Sons of Liberty dressed as Mohawks and dumped tea in harbor
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What are the Intolerable Acts?

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  • King George III thought he was losing control

- Parliament passed the Coersive Acts which were meant to punish the people of Boston

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Intolerable Acts

what happened to Boston Harbor?

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-it was closed until the colonists paid for the tea.

BUT, the other colonies sent them food

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Intolerable Acts

-what happened to town meetings?

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-town meetings were suspended in New England

the colonists rights were trampled, so they were angered

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Intolerable acts

What were Bostonians forced to do?

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-shelter soldiers in their homes

Rights violated as British citizens

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What happened when the crown gave land to colonial Quebec?

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Gov for Quebec was set up, they were given land west of the Appalachian mountains

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