Tighter British Control

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Tighter British Control

• Americans saw British efforts to tax them and to
  increase control over the colonies as violations
  of their rights

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Key Terms and People

• Key Terms
• Quartering Act
• Revenue
• Sugar Act
• Stamp Act
• Boycott

• Key People
• King George III
• Patrick Henry
• Sons of Liberty

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O-H..I-O

• After the French and Indian War, The colonists
  begin to see their freedoms limited
• The Proclamation of 1763 angered colonists who
  wanted to settle into the Ohio Valley
• As land grew scarce the Law would be ignored and
  people would settle into the fertile Ohio valley

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Out with the reve-oldin with the

• In an effort to keep peace with Native Americans
  King George III would Pass the Quartering Act
• Colonists would be required to house soldiers in
  the colonies to save money for Britain
• Britain also tried to increase revenue in the
  colonies to pay for the war and the cost of
  soldiers in the colonies
• Britain started passing taxes to the colonies to
  pay for defense

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Sugar and Spiceand everything Nice

• The Sugar Act Placed a tax on all sugar and
  molasses in the colonies and placed strict
  punishments on smuggling
• Colonists viewed the Sugar Act as Taxation
  without representation
• Britain Viewed the taxes as an extension of
  British Taxes on the colonists

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A forever stamp

• The Stamp Act put a tax on all official documents
  in the colonies
• The Stamp Act affected All Colonists and had to
  be paid for in Silver coin, which was also scarce
• Colonists feared the British would impose more
  taxes on more things in the colonies
• Patrick Henry Called for a Resistance to the
  Taxes, which some viewed as Treason

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Time to get a new career

• Angered by the Stamp act, colonists began to
  protest and Boycott the taxes
• The Sons of Liberty also protested the Stamp Act,
  both peacefully and violently
• Some of the protests would end in the Tar and
  Feathering of the customs officials who would end
  up quitting their jobs

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Almost Time to Harvest the Garden

• Some British Officials, Like William Pitt, also
  attacked the Stamp Act
• While the Stamp act was repealed, the Declaratory
  Act gave parliament supreme power in the colonies
• Control of the colonies would begin to push the
  colonies and Britain closer to war

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• If Women refuse to buy goodsdoes that make it a
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