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6.1 Tighter British Control

6.1 Tighter British Control. The Colonies and Britain Grow A part. After the French and Indian War the British govt. once again decided to take a more active role in the colonies (no more salutary neglect).

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6.1 Tighter British Control

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  1. 6.1 Tighter British Control

  2. The Colonies and Britain Grow Apart • After the French and Indian War the British govt. once again decided to take a more active role in the colonies (no more salutary neglect). • The colonists had grown used to salutary neglect and so they didn’t like the new attention and increased control. • Many colonists ignored the Proclamation of 1763. (I know you’re shocked.)

  3. British Troops and Taxes • In order to keep the Native Americans AND the colonists under control, King George III sent 10,000 professional soldiers to the colonies. • This resulted in the Quartering Act of 1765 (you have to give the soldiers some place to live, and the government is NOT going to foot the bill to build housing for them…after all, they just paid for the French and Indian War). • The Quartering Act put most of the troops based in New York under command of Thomas Gage. • The Quartering Act required the colonists to house the troops and give them supplies.

  4. Debt • Britain had a large war debt and it costs money to keep troops in America. Britain wanted the colonists to help pay for their own defense. Before the King had asked the colonists to pass their own taxes for stuff like this, but this time the govt. passed the Sugar Act. The Sugar Act taxed sugar, molasses, and other products shipped into the colonies, and called for strict punishment of smugglers (and we all know that the colonists had been smuggling cargo in and out for decades). • James Otis came up with this famous quote: “Taxation without representation is tyranny.”

  5. Britain Passes the Stamp Act, 1765 • This required that all legal and commercial docs had to be stamped to prove that a tax had been paid (diplomas, contracts, wills, newspapers…) • The tax had to be paid for in silver coinage which was rare in the colonies. • Patrick Henry called for resistance to the Stamp Act.

  6. The Colonies Protest the Stamp Act • In Oct., 1765: first time colonists met to protest ; they drafted a petition which declared that the right to tax the colonies belonged TO the colonies and not to Parliament. In 1765, any universe, would this work?

  7. Sons of Liberty • It was a secret society made up of lawyers and merchants who wanted to protest the govt. • Merchants organized a boycott of British goods. • They staged protests and attacked customs officials, and many of those officials quit their jobs.

  8. The Protests Are a Success? • The Stamp was repealed in 1766 (only lasted one year). • You don’t like this? We’ll give you that. • In 1766, Parliament passed the Declaratory Act which said Parliament did INDEED have supreme authority over the colonies. • (this is a shocking development….kind of like what today?)

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