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Proclamation

of 1763

It was atime when

the British

won new

land after

the French

and Indian

War. The

British

made it

illegal for

colonists

to move

into the

new land

west of the

Appalachia

n

Mountains

.

8 TheBritish

wanted to

prevent

any more

wars with

the

Narrative

Americans

. The

colonists

were

frustrated

by the

Proclamat

ion of

1763.

1. What didthe Britishwanted to

prevent?

2. What wasthe

Proclamatio

n of 1763?

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nial+unrest+placards.pdf

Quartering

Act

The

quartering

Act made

thecolonists

angry, and

the troops

were

suspicious

to them.

10 The

Quarterin

g Act

maddened the

colonists;

they

believed

they have

been sent

to

America

not to

protect

colonistsbut to

control

them.

1. What didthe

quartering

act made?2. Did the

Quartering

act madden

the

colonists?

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Stamp Act The British

were in

dept. after

the French

9 The

colonists

were very

angered

1. Were theBritish in

dept.?

2. What did





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and Indian

War. They

felt that

the

colonists

should

help them

by paying

for some

of the

expenses

involved in

defending

the

colonies

from the

French.

by the

stamp act.

They

werent

upset just

about

having to

the tax.

the British

felt?

TownshendActs

The newBritish

Prime

Minister,

Charles

Townshed,

imposed a

small

indirect tax

on glass,

lead,

paper, andtea. The

colonists

saw the

indirect

text as an

unjust

form of

taxation

without

representa

tion.

7 Since thetax would

then be

included

in the

price the

colonists

paid at

the

stores-and

not added

onto theprice like

with the

Stamp

Act-

Townshen

d hoped

the

colonists

would not

even

notice

they were

paying a

tax.

1. Who wasthe new

British

Prime

Minister?

2. Why did thecolonists

paid at the

stores?

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Boston

Massacre

In 1770

March five,

a mob of

colonists in

Boston

9 Most

colonists

believed

that the

British

1. Whathappened in

1770?

2. What didmost





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began to

harass

British

troops,

mocking

them and

throwing

snowballs.

Most of

the

colonists

believed

that the

British

soldiers

were

totally at

fault.

soldiers

were

completel

y at fault.

The

enraged

citizens of

Boston

called a

town

meeting

to

demand

the

removal

of the

British

troopsand to

argue for

the trial of

the British

troops

and to

argue for

the trial of

the British

soldiers

formurder.

colonists

believe?

Boston Tea

Party

Parliament

passed the

Tea act in

1773,

which gave

the British

East Indies

company a

whole

monopoly

of the

American

tea

business-

meaning

that

colonists

can only

8 Dressed

as Native

Americans

, colonists

raided

three

British

ships in

the

Boston

Harbor.

Colonists

smashed

open 340

chests of

tea and

dumped

them into

1. What actdid

Parliament

pass?

2. How did thecolonists

dress like

when the

raided three

British

ships?





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buy tea

from this

company.

the

Harbor,

while a

crowd of

people

watched

in

approval.

The

Intolerable

Acts

The British

passed the

Coercive

Acts in

reaction to

the Boston

Tea Party.

The British

hoped to

forcecolonists

to pay for

the tea lost

and to

obey

British

rule. Sam

Adams,

whose

painting

appears onthis

placard,

helped to

stir up

colonial

response

to these

acts.

8 The

colonists

call the

acts the

intolerabl

e acts

because

they did

not feel

that theycould

tolerate

them. The

taxes they

had been

battling

were

nothing in

compariso

n to this

badBritish

crackdow

n on

colonial

rights.

1. What didthe British

pass?

2. What didthe

colonists

call the

acts?




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