1. Chapter 7 Section 3
Taxes and Boycotts

2. Trouble on the Frontier
French and Indian War
Native Americans joined French side
WHY??? 1) respect
2) Native Americans joined the British side
WHY??? British gave them goods
3) The Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War

3. Proclamation of 1763 Issued by 4) King George III
Forbade colonists to settle west of the 5) Appalachian Mountains
Avoided attacks by the 6) Native Americans

4. Money Problems Great Britain is poor after French and Indian War
Since they protected the colonies, they will make the colonists pay
7) George Grenville
Great Britain’s Prime Minister
Passed 8) Sugar Act of 1764
Taxed 9) molasses and 10) sugar
11) Quartering Act
Required colonists to house and feed soldiers in their area

5. Stamp Act Controversy Basic Rights!!! Sons of Liberty
Taxed newspapers, playing cards, legal documents
Needed a stamp to prove the tax had been paid
Basic Rights!!!
Could only be taxed by local officials
No 14 taxation without 15) representation!
Sons of Liberty
Protest group
Led a 16) boycott of British goods

6. Stamp Act Congress Repeal of the 17) Stamp Act
Group established to formally protest the Stamp Act
Repeal of the 17) Stamp Act
Businesses urged Grenville to get rid of it
WHY?
Losing business
18) The Declaratory Act
Parliament had the right to rule and tax the colonies

7. More Conflicts With Parliament
19) Townshend Acts
Taxed imported paint, glass, lead, paper and tea
20) Writs of Assistance
Blank search warrants
Officials could search anywhere for smuggled goods

8. Boycott of British Imports
21) Nonimportation Agreements
Colonists would not import taxed items
22) Daughters of Liberty
Woman organization
Agreed not to buy English 23) tea or 24) cloth

9. Talk of Independence The 25) Boston Massacre
British soldiers fired at a mob of colonists who threw snowballs at them
To improve relations with the colonists, Lord 26) North abolished the 27) Townshend Acts
Except for the tax on 28) tea

10. The Conflicts Increase
Sam Adams
Urged colonists to keep an eye on the British
Formed the 29) committees of correspondence
A network for passing on news

11. Trouble Over Tea Tea Act Didn’t have to pay the import tax
30) East India Company could deliver tea directly
Didn’t have to pay the import tax
Didn’t have to use colonial ships
Took away jobs from the colonists
Ship captains joined the Sons of Liberty to protest

12. The Boston Tea Party East India tea was thrown into Boston Harbor
Threw 300 chests overboard
31) Sons of Liberty, disguised as 32) Mohawk Indians
Sam Adams
Patrick Henry