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2. The Colonies Grow Discontented

3. Fighting with Natives Continues
Pontiac, chief of the Ottawa people, united several Native American groups and goes to war against the British. 
They attacked forts and towns along the frontier.
British fear cost of another war
Proclamation of 1763

4. Proclamation of 1763
Colonists were not allowed to settle in certain areas without the government’s permission. 
The proclamation angered many farmers & land speculators.

5. Paying War Debt
George Grenville, the British prime minister implemented new tax policies in the colonies.
Grenville introduced the Sugar Act in the colonies.
This act changed tax rates for raw sugar & molasses & placed new taxes on silk, wine, coffee, pimento, and indigo.

6. Colonists get Angry
Merchants felt the Sugar Act hurt trade & argued that it violated traditional English rights.
Colonists argued that they were being “taxed without representation” in Parliament.
Currency Act of 1764 –banned use of paper money to payoff debts, angers farmers

7. Stamp Act Crisis
Parliament passed the Stamp Act in 1765, most printed material now taxed
First direct tax Britain placed on the colonists.
Next, the Quartering Act, forced the colonists to pay to house British soldiers
Parliament, passed the Declaratory Act, which gave them the power to make laws for the colonies.

9. Colonists Respond
By the summer of 1765, demonstrations against the stamp tax took place in the colonies.
Colonial merchants signed a nonimportation agreement, agreeing not to buy any British goods until the Stamp Act was repealed.
The protests led to the Stamp Act being repealed in 1766.

10. Townshend Acts
The Revenue Act of 1767, placed new customs duties on glass, lead, paper, paint, and tea imported into the colonies. 
The Townshend Acts gave British officials the right to seize property without following due process. 

11. Colonists Resist the British
John Dickinson published a series called Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer, asking colonists to resist the Townshend Acts 
The Sons of Liberty encouraged colonists to boycott British goods. 
Imports from Britain declined sharply from what they had been the year before. 

12. Britain gives in…again
After the Boston Massacre, the British seen as killers of people who stand up for their rights. 
In response, Britain repealed the Townshend Acts, leaving only one tax–on tea–to uphold its right to tax colonies.
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13. Checking for Understanding
Define Match the terms on the right with their definitions on the left.
__ 1. the loss of value of money
__ 2. a tax on imports and exports
__ 3. a search warrant enabling customs officers to enter any location to look for evidence of smuggling
__ 4. a pledge by merchants not to buy imported goods from a particular source
A. customs duty
B. inflation
C. nonimportation agreement
D. writ of assistance

15. Coercive / Intolerable Acts
British Acts
British Action
Colonial Reaction
British Response
Proclamation of 1763
Sugar Act
Stamp Act
Quartering Act
Declaratory Act
Townshend Act
Tea Act
Coercive / Intolerable Acts
Quebec Act

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