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Chapter 6 Section 1 (pp. 157-159) Tighter British Control

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The Colonies and The Colonists helped the British Britain Grow Defeat the French. Apart After the French and Indian War, the British become more controlling.

Parliament’s new laws and restrictions threaten Colonists’ freedoms.

Westward King George III: British Monarch, Expansion issued many reforms. Restricted Proclamation of 1763: limited westward expansion and restricted speculation.

Speculate: buy as an investment. Quartering Act: required colonists to house British soldiers.

Parliament Taxes To pay off debts from the French the Colonists and Indian War, Parliament decided to tax the colonists.

Sugar Act (1764): placed a tax on sugar, molasses, and other products.

Stamp Act (1765): required all legal and commercial documents to carry official stamps showing a tax was paid.

Wills, contracts, newspapers and diplomas had to carry a stamp as well.

Parliament saw taxes as reasonable while colonists saw them as threats.

Two complaints: (1) Parliament had no right to tax colonists (2) No tax should be created without consent of colonists. “No Taxation without Representation”

Colonists Defy Patrick Henry: member of the Parliament House of Burgesses, demanded resistance.

Stamp Act Congress formed (1765): delegates from nine colonies protested the Stamp Act.

First time colonists united against British policies.

The Colonists Sons of Liberty secret society Organize formed to oppose British policies.

Encouraged people to attack customs agents and burn the stamps.

Colonists Boycott: widespread refusal to buy Threaten British British goods. Profits Colonists hoped merchants would influence Parliament to repeal Stamp Act. Parliament finally repealed Stamp Act in 1766.

Declaratory Act (1766) stated Parliament had supreme authority to govern the colonies.