Proclamation of 1763, Intolerable Acts Stamp Act, taxation without
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Causes of the American Revolution
Proclamation of 1763
Great Britain gained the French territory
inNorth America
after the end of the French & Indian War (Seven Year’s War).
A proclamation is an announcement.
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The Proclamation prevented colonists of the
thirteen colonies from settling or buying
land west of the Appalachian Mountains.
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The colonists were angry because many already had land in that
area.
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The Proclamation gave the King a monopoly in land bought from Native
Americans.
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King George’sreason for theproclamation was to create
Britain's huge, new
North Americanempire.
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King George III also wanted to calm the relationship with Native
Americans.
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He did this by creating guidelines of trade, settlement, and land purchases
on the western frontier.
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King George IIIissued this
public statement on October 7,
1763.
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Intolerable ActsA series of British actions passed in
1774.
Also nicknamed the Coercive Acts.
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Why were they passed?
It was designed to punish the Massachusetts
colonists for the Boston Tea Party.
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Laws
One of the laws closed the port of Boston until the colonists paid for the tea that they had destroyed.
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OutcomeAlthough the acts were intended to
checkthe colonists conflict with Britain, they
onlyinflamed the situation.
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Stamp Acts
A law passed by the British government in 1765.
It required a tax payment to Britain on a variety of papers and documents,
(including newspapers) that were produced in the American colonies.
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Why?
It was a way for King George to control
the colonists and punish them
for leaving Britain.
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Special stamps were to be attached to the papers and documents
as proof that the tax had been paid.
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The stamp tax was the first direct tax ever levied by Britain on the
Americans, who rioted in opposition.
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The American colonists petitioned King George III to cancel the act,
which he did in 1766.
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Taxation without Representation
A phrase, generally attributed to James Otis about 1761.
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Colonists were angry because they were being taxed by a British
parliament.
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“Taxation without representation is tyranny.”
-James Otis
The colonists didn’t think it was fair that they were taxed and had no
representative in England to represent their point of view.
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