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Results of the French and War

• Proclamation of 1763British proclamation banning
  colonial settlement west of the Appalachian
  Mountains.

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• Parliament also made life much harder for
  smugglers by giving the vice-admiralty courts
  greater powers. These courts had no juries, and
  their judges treated suspected smugglers as
  guilty until proven innocent.

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Sugar Act

• (1764) Law passed by the British Parliament
  setting taxes on molasses and sugar imported by
  the colonies.

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In what ways did Parliament's new laws increase
British control of the American colonies?

• Tax and currency regulations.
• Crackdown on smugglers.
• Use of vice-admiralty courts.

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Taxation without Representation

• James Otis, a lawyer from Boston, was one of the
  first colonists to protest taxation by
  Parliament.
• Samuel Adams agreed with Otis. He believed that
  Parliament could not tax the colonists without
  their consent and said that agreeing to the tax
  would be dangerous.

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Committees of Correspondence

• Committees created in Massachusetts in the 1760s
  to help towns and colonies share information
  about resisting the new British laws.

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boycott

• To refuse to buy certain goods method often used
  in protest movements.

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How did Samuel Adams and James Otis influence
colonial protests against new taxes?

• They argued for no taxation without
  representation.
• Adams helped form the Committees of
  Correspondence to organize protests.

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Stamp Act

• (1765) Law passed by Parliament that raised tax
  money by requiring colonists to pay for an
  official stamp whenever they bought paper items
  such as newspapers, licenses, and legal
  documents.

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What methods did the colonists use to protest the
Sugar and Stamp Acts, and what were the results
of their efforts?

• Boycotts
• Intimidation
• Breaking the law
• Stamp Act repealed!

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Sons of Liberty

• Secret societies formed in the mid-1700s by
  colonists to protest new taxes and to frighten
  tax collectors.

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Patrick Henry

• Stated that the Stamp Act violated the rights of
  the colonists as British citizens. In addition to
  taxation without representation, the Stamp Act
  denied the accused trial by jury.
• "If this be treason, make the most of it!"
  Henry's speech convinced the assembly to support
  some of his ideas.

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repeal

• To abolish.

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Declaratory Act

• Stated that Parliament had the power to make laws
  for the colonies "in all cases whatsoever.
• Parliament made the rules, not the colonists.
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