Tighter British Control

Americans saw British efforts to tax them and to increase control over the colonies as

violations of their rights

Key Terms and People

Key Terms: Quartering Act

Revenue

Sugar Act

Stamp Act

Boycott

Key People King George III

Patrick Henry

Sons of Liberty

O-H…..I-O After the French and Indian War, The

colonists begin to see their freedoms limited

The Proclamation of 1763 angered colonists who wanted to settle into the Ohio Valley

As land grew scarce the Law would be ignored and people would settle into the fertile Ohio valley

Out with the reve-old…in with the… In an effort to keep peace with Native

Americans King George III would Pass the Quartering Act

Colonists would be required to house soldiers in the colonies to save money for Britain

Britain also tried to increase revenue in the colonies to pay for the war and the cost of soldiers in the colonies

Britain started passing taxes to the colonies to pay for defense

Sugar and Spice…and everything Nice The Sugar Act Placed a tax on all sugar

and molasses in the colonies and placed strict punishments on smuggling’

Colonists viewed the Sugar Act as Taxation without representation

Britain Viewed the taxes as an extension of British Taxes on the colonists

A forever stamp The Stamp Act put a tax on all official

documents in the colonies

The Stamp Act affected All Colonists and had to be paid for in Silver coin, which was also scarce

Colonists feared the British would impose more taxes on more things in the colonies

Patrick Henry Called for a Resistance to the Taxes, which some viewed as Treason

Time to get a new career Angered by the Stamp act, colonists

began to protest and Boycott the taxes

The Sons of Liberty also protested the Stamp Act, both peacefully and violently

Some of the protests would end in the Tar and Feathering of the customs officials who would end up quitting their jobs

Almost Time to Harvest the Garden Some British Officials, Like William

Pitt, also attacked the Stamp Act

While the Stamp act was repealed, the Declaratory Act gave parliament supreme power in the colonies

Control of the colonies would begin to push the colonies and Britain closer to war

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If Women refuse to buy goods…does that make it

a Girlcott?