1. Do your parents treat you like an adult or like a kid?

2. Salutary Neglect What do you see?

3. Salutary Neglect Colonists were ignored by the king Free Independent
They make up their own rules and government. They have their own representatives.
This was called SELF GOVERNMENT

4. French and Indian Wars
Fighting between England and France over land in the New World.
France had Canada
England wanted Canada
Native Americans helped England
England made a deal with Native Americans that their colonists were not allowed to expand out West into their territory.
PROCLAMATION OF 1763

5. WHY WOULD THIS UPSET THE COLONISTS?

6. What do you see?

7. Britain in Debt
“We are here in England and we believe the colonists in America have benefited from the war because now they get more land; therefore, they should have to pay a tax to recover the money spent on the war. The King has done a lot for the colonists by giving them ships and other supplies.”
-British advisor George Grenville (1764) describes the role the British played in protecting the American colonists in the Indian wars.

8. The Stamp Act
1765
Tax on colonist buy a British stamp for every piece of printed paper they used
Raise 1/3 of the money for American defense

9. The Colonists’ opinion of the Stamp Act
British Stamp
The Colonists’ opinion of the Stamp Act