Albany Pontiac and Proclamation of 1763
Acts That Break Apart an Empire
Objective: I can explain the economic and political origins of the American Revolution.
Preview: Answer: What actions would lead you to leave your country?
Process: Albany Congress/Plan of Union and
Proclamation of 1763 Guided notes.
On Your Own: Acts foldable and Group “Gallery Crawl”
Albany Congress and Plan of Union
Proclamation of
1763
Congress at Albany, 1754
7 colonies gathered in Albany, NY to discuss how the colonies can unify and defend themselves after the French and Indian War.
Ben Franklin : Proposed and wrote the Albany Plan of Union (thanks
Iroquois nation for your awesome League of 6 nations, what a good idea!)
A president appointed by Great Britain
Elect representatives from each colony
Make laws for colonies
Raise taxes for colonies
Set-up one defense for the colonies
Colonists reject the plan before the King can even look at it!
Important BECAUSE…it was a forerunner of the Articles of
Confederation and the Constitution.
Keith Hughes Explains the
Albany Plan of Union
• Why are there only 8 segments of the snake?
• Why do you think this image was so persuasive to colonists who may never have thought of the separate colonies as parts of a whole?
Proclamation of 1763
The prime result of Pontiac’s Rebellion.
British policymakers used this proclamation.
Imaginary line at the crest of the Appalachian Mountains
› It forbid settlers to move west of the line
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Ordered all settlers west of the line “to remove themselves”
No purchasing land from Indians.
Colonists’ Response
First of many laws issued by Parliament that would lead to the
American Revolution.
Many ignore it completely
Ahhh Lovely Salutary Neglect
1713-1763- Americans see reduced government intervention in colonial affairs
Leave them alone=produce more wealth
Colonies develop self-reliance
13 separate colonial governments emerge
Colonists get used to running own affairs
England Regulates Trade: Remember Mercantilism?
By the 1700s trade flourished all along the
Atlantic coast. As trade increased, England began to take a new interest in its colonies.
England believed that its colonies existed for the
benefit of the home country = mercantilism .
England began passing a series of laws called the
Navigation Acts that regulated trade between
England and its colonies .
Mercantilism
The English colonies are producing a
LOT of goods and shipping them to
England!
Rice
Indigo
Cotton
Wheat
Tobacco Lumber
+ =
Goods shipped
To England MONEY!
The laws passed in the Navigation Acts guarantee that only England would make money off the goods from its colonies.
1. The laws encouraged colonists to build their own ships to transport their goods. New England became a prosperous ship building center.
(Hmmm . . . this may come in handy when the colonists go to war with England!)
2. Colonial merchants always had a market
(ENGLAND) to sell their goods.
1. Only English ships could carry goods to and from the colonies.
2. Colonists who grow cotton or tobacco can ship their goods to ENGLAND! ( this created lots of jobs in England where workers would cut and roll the tobacco or spin the cotton into cloth.)
3. Colonists were not allowed to sell their raw materials therefore losing money they could be making from other countries.
End of Salutary Neglect
1763 marks new era in relations between England
& colonies:
Continuous attempts to enforce the Navigation
Acts
Enormous debt from 7 Years War (French and
Indian War)- British want colonists to pay
King George III sought increased control over colonies
