<p> First and Last Name Date Period ____ Social Studies Cornell Notes</p><p>Chapter 6 Section 1 (pp. 157-159) Tighter British Control </p><p>Main Ideas Details</p><p>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.</p><p>Parliament’s new laws and restrictions threaten Colonists’ freedoms.</p><p>Westward King George III: British Monarch, Expansion issued many reforms. Restricted Proclamation of 1763: limited westward expansion and restricted speculation.</p><p>Speculate: buy as an investment. Quartering Act: required colonists to house British soldiers.</p><p>Parliament Taxes To pay off debts from the French the Colonists and Indian War, Parliament decided to tax the colonists.</p><p>Sugar Act (1764): placed a tax on sugar, molasses, and other products.</p><p>Stamp Act (1765): required all legal and commercial documents to carry official stamps showing a tax was paid.</p><p>Wills, contracts, newspapers and diplomas had to carry a stamp as well.</p><p>Parliament saw taxes as reasonable while colonists saw them as threats.</p><p>Two complaints: (1) Parliament had no right to tax colonists (2) No tax should be created without consent of colonists. “No Taxation without Representation”</p><p>Colonists Defy Patrick Henry: member of the Parliament House of Burgesses, demanded resistance. </p><p>Stamp Act Congress formed (1765): delegates from nine colonies protested the Stamp Act.</p><p>First time colonists united against British policies.</p><p>The Colonists Sons of Liberty secret society Organize formed to oppose British policies.</p><p>Encouraged people to attack customs agents and burn the stamps.</p><p>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 Parliament finally repealed Stamp Act in 1766.</p><p>Declaratory Act (1766) stated Parliament had supreme authority to govern the colonies. </p>