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Beginning Of Problems
First:
- Colonists want to expand into the new territory- problem Indians become
Threatened and attack white settlers
- Ottawa Indians- attack forts/ trading posts – leads to 200 white deaths
- British regulars places in territory to try and stop Indians/protect whites
Proclamation Line of 1763
- set-up by parliament
- British Army sick of fighting the Indians
- Place a restriction on settlers in colonies
- No longer allowed to expand past the Appalachian Mts
- Settlers do not listen and go anyway
- Result- Indian attacks still- NOW they are going against Parliament
Second:
- Debt accumulated by the British during French and Indian War needs to be paid offColonies need to start paying taxes to help pay this off
SUGAR ACT
- put a tax on sugar and molasses that was imported from the West Indies to the
colonies
MUTINY ACT
- force Colonists to house British Soldiers that were over in the colonies
- must feed and listen to them in your own home- at colonist expense
- Also- British say that this is a permanent solution to having soldiers over here
and that soldiers will permanently be over in colonies
STAMP ACT
- a tax being imposed on ALL PRINTED PAPER PRODUCTS
- this tax will only be on the colonists not in Europe
- Colonists have no representation in Parliament so now of the money being
Collected from taxes will go back to colonies
Reactions:
- Stamp Act Congress developed- organizes protest to British taxes
- Tax collectors attacked
- Colonial Merchants/people boycott British made anything
Colonists are very ANGRY! - Stamp Act the most- says Parliament can not tax them
- no representation no taxation
- if money does not go back to colonies they will not pay taxes
SLOGAN OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR BECOMES:
“No Taxation without representation”
British Response:
Declaratory Act
- says British can and will tax the colonies on anything and everything they want too
- Parliament and the king formally claim dominance over all of the colonies
Colonies not happy- Protest begins and the Revolutionary War is Coming