Proclamation of 1763, Intolerable Acts Stamp Act, taxation without

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Causes of the American Revolution

Proclamation of 1763

Great Britain gained the French territory

inNorth America

after the end of the French & Indian War (Seven Year’s War).

A proclamation is an announcement.

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The Proclamation prevented colonists of the

thirteen colonies from settling or buying

land west of the Appalachian Mountains.

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The colonists were angry because many already had land in that

area.

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The Proclamation gave the King a monopoly in land bought from Native

Americans.

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King George’sreason for theproclamation was to create

Britain's huge, new

North Americanempire.

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King George III also wanted to calm the relationship with Native

Americans.

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He did this by creating guidelines of trade, settlement, and land purchases

on the western frontier.

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King George IIIissued this

public statement on October 7,

1763.

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Intolerable ActsA series of British actions passed in

1774.

Also nicknamed the Coercive Acts.

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Why were they passed?

It was designed to punish the Massachusetts

colonists for the Boston Tea Party.

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Laws

One of the laws closed the port of Boston until the colonists paid for the tea that they had destroyed.

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OutcomeAlthough the acts were intended to

checkthe colonists conflict with Britain, they

onlyinflamed the situation.

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Stamp Acts

A law passed by the British government in 1765.

It required a tax payment to Britain on a variety of papers and documents,

(including newspapers) that were produced in the American colonies.

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Why?

It was a way for King George to control

the colonists and punish them

for leaving Britain.

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Special stamps were to be attached to the papers and documents

as proof that the tax had been paid.

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The stamp tax was the first direct tax ever levied by Britain on the

Americans, who rioted in opposition.

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The American colonists petitioned King George III to cancel the act,

which he did in 1766.

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Taxation without Representation

A phrase, generally attributed to James Otis about 1761.

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Colonists were angry because they were being taxed by a British

parliament.

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“Taxation without representation is tyranny.”

-James Otis

The colonists didn’t think it was fair that they were taxed and had no

representative in England to represent their point of view.

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