1. Knights Charge 10/2 What was the cause of the French and Indian War?
What did the British gain as a result of the Treaty of Paris?
What was the Proclamation Line of 1763?
What were some of the effects of the French and Indian War?

2. Knights Charge 9/28 What caused the French and Indian War?
Who were on the two sides of the French and Indian War?
What treaty ended the war? Who won? What did they get?
What was the Proclamation Line of 1763?
What were 2 effects of the French and Indian War?

3. Knights Charge 9/29
What was one of the main impacts of the French and Indian War that had a direct economic impact on the colonies?
What did the Navigation Acts lead to?
What were the Writs of Assistance? Why did the British pass this?
What was the Sugar Act?
What was the Quartering Act? How did the colonists respond to it?

6. British Taxes in the Colonies
Lecture 2
British Taxes in the Colonies

7. Navigations Acts (1651)
Forced American colonists to trade only with Great Britain

8. Colonial Response
Massive amounts of smuggling occurred which angered the British

10. Writs of Assistance (1761)
British Officers could search any American boat at any time
Intended to prevent smuggling

11. Colonial Response
Heightened tension between the colonists and the British
Colonists complained it violated their rights as a British subject

12. Sugar Act (1764) Increased taxes on molasses and sugar
Attempted to crack down on smugglers

13. Colonial Response Further angered colonists
They felt they were being unfairly treated and taxed
“Taxation without Representation”- colonists being taxed with no say about it

14. Quartering Act (1765)
British troops could stay in American colonists’ homes
Could provide Protection for colonists

15. Colonial Response Angered by having to feed and house British soldiers
Felt military presence was highly unnecessary

16. Knights Charge 10/2
What were the Navigation Acts? What happened as a result in the colonies?
How did the British attempt to stop smuggling?
Name 3 Acts passed by the British and how the colonists reacted to them.

17. Colonial Response: Stamp Act (1765)
Required that printed materials in colonies be taxed

18. Colonial Response: Stamp Act Congress
Formed official protest against new British taxation. 
It was the first gathering of elected representatives from the American colonies to from a protest

19. Colonial Response: Virginia Resolves (1765)
Formal responses created by the House of Burgesses in reaction to the Stamp Act
Asked Britain to repeal Stamp Act

20. Colonial Response
Many colonists would harass tax collectors which made collecting the taxes for the British very difficult and inefficient

21. Declaratory Act (1766) Repealed the Stamp Act
Justified Britain’s ability to tax the American colonists

22. Colonial Response
Colonists felt that Britain didn’t have the right to continue to tax Americans
Felt that more unjustified acts were upcoming

23. Townshend Acts (1767) Placed tax on paper, glass, paint, and tea
British wanted to raise revenue in the colonies to pay the salaries of governors and judges so that they would remain loyal to Great Britain
Punished New York for not obeying the Quartering Act

24. Colonial Response Colonists extremely angered Protesting took place
Britain sent troops to Boston which eventually led to the Boston Massacre