Trouble over Colonists' Rights
Colonists pay tax to England on imported items like sugar SUGAR ACT Britain in debt because of war with France George Greenville, of England, taxes colonists in America SUGAR ACT Colonists pay tax to England on imported items like sugar
SUGAR ACT IMAGINE: Your favorite clothing costs 3Xs as much as it did last time you bought it
NO TAXATION Colonists ANGRY NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION
NO TAXATION Committee of Correspondence –share ideas about ways to challenge Britain BOYCOTT British goods!!!! STOP buying them!!!!!
THE STAMP ACT STAMP ACT – tax on all paper items (newspapers, playing cards, etc) or JAIL
THE STAMP ACT Colonists ANGRY again!!
THE STAMP ACT The Sons of Liberty – secret societies that used VIOLENCE to frighten tax collectors
THE STAMP ACT Colonists beg England to REPEAL or end Stamp Act Promise to start buying English goods again
The Declatory Act England is ANGRY – how dare colonists challenge authority The Declatory Act – only England makes the rules NOT the colonists