1. Trouble over Colonists' Rights

3. Colonists pay tax to England on imported items like sugar
SUGAR ACT
Britain in debt because of war with France
George Greenville, of England, taxes colonists in America  SUGAR ACT
Colonists pay tax to England on imported items like sugar

4. SUGAR ACT
IMAGINE: Your favorite clothing costs 3Xs as much as it did last time you bought it

5. NO TAXATION
Colonists ANGRY
NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION

6. NO TAXATION
Committee of Correspondence –share ideas about ways to challenge Britain
BOYCOTT British goods!!!! STOP buying them!!!!!

7. THE STAMP ACT
STAMP ACT – tax on all paper items (newspapers, playing cards, etc) or JAIL

8. THE STAMP ACT
Colonists ANGRY again!!

9. THE STAMP ACT
The Sons of Liberty – secret societies that used VIOLENCE to frighten tax collectors

11. THE STAMP ACT Colonists beg England to REPEAL or end Stamp Act
Promise to start buying English goods again

12. The Declatory Act
England is ANGRY – how dare colonists challenge authority
The Declatory Act – only England makes the rules NOT the colonists