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Do your parents treat you like an adult or like a kid?
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Salutary Neglect What do you see?
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Salutary Neglect Colonists were ignored by the king Free Independent
They make up their own rules and government. They have their own representatives. This was called SELF GOVERNMENT
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French and Indian Wars Fighting between England and France over land in the New World. France had Canada England wanted Canada Native Americans helped England England made a deal with Native Americans that their colonists were not allowed to expand out West into their territory. PROCLAMATION OF 1763
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WHY WOULD THIS UPSET THE COLONISTS?
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What do you see?
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Britain in Debt “We are here in England and we believe the colonists in America have benefited from the war because now they get more land; therefore, they should have to pay a tax to recover the money spent on the war. The King has done a lot for the colonists by giving them ships and other supplies.” -British advisor George Grenville (1764) describes the role the British played in protecting the American colonists in the Indian wars.
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The Stamp Act 1765 Tax on colonist buy a British stamp for every piece of printed paper they used Raise 1/3 of the money for American defense
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The Colonists’ opinion of the Stamp Act
British Stamp The Colonists’ opinion of the Stamp Act
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