8.4 A Review

​Analyze the causes of the American Revolution, including the Proclamation of 1763, The Intolerable Acts, the Stamp Act, Mercantilism, lack of representation in British Parliament and British Economic Policies following the French and Indian War

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• ​The Proclamation of 1763 was an imaginary boundary (red line) set by King George III after the French and Indian War

• ​It stated that no one was to move west past the Boundary.

• ​The Boundary was marked by the Appalachian Mountains.

• ​This Proclamation was intended to keep peace with Native Americans and their land.

• ​The Proclamation of 1763 angered colonists because they did not like that the King is trying to control where they can live.

• ​The British Parliament's Actions upset many colonists.

• ​Colonists believed that Great Britain had no right to tax them without consent

• ​The Colonies had no representation in British Parliament

• ​The Colonists would protest by "boycotting" which means refusing to buy British goods.

• ​This tax required colonists to pay for a stamp when they bought paper items, such as newspapers playing cards, pamphlets.

• ​The Colonists protested by using violence against British tax collectors, or refusing to buy the stamps.

• ​Parliament repealed (got rid of) the Stamp Act one year later.

• ​During this incident British soldiers fired upon a crowd of colonists who were shouting at them, throwing snowballs, and daring the soldiers to shoot at them.

• ​British Soldiers killed 5 colonists

• ​The best remembered casualty of the incident is Crispus Attucks who was half Native American and half black

• ​To protest a tax placed on tea, colonists disguised as Native Americans sneaked on to the Tea- filled ships and dumped 340 tea chests into the waters of the harbor.

• ​The Intolerable Acts were a direct response to the Boston Tea Party

• ​they were 6 different Laws and taxes placed on the Colonists as punishment for the Boston Tea Party - the most important ones were....

1. ​closing Boston Harbor until the Tea spilled was paid for

2. ​The Quartering Act

   1. ​required colonists to house British soldiers.

• ​These acts only made the Colonists angrier.

• ​Mercantilism is a system of creating and maintaining wealth through carefully controlled trade.

• ​A country gained more wealth if it had more exports than imports.

• ​Britain used this system to control who the colonists could trade with.

  • ​the Colonies were only allowed to trade with Britain.