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The Colonies Grow
Discontented
Fighting with Natives Continues
• Pontiac, chief of the Ottawa people,
united several Native American groups
and goes to war against the British. 
• They attacked forts and towns along the
frontier.
• British fear cost of another war
– Proclamation of 1763
Proclamation of 1763
• Colonists were not allowed to settle in
certain areas without the government’s
permission. 
• The proclamation angered many
farmers & land speculators.
Paying War Debt
• George Grenville, the British prime
minister implemented new tax policies in
the colonies.
• Grenville introduced the Sugar Act in the
colonies.
• This act changed tax rates for raw sugar &
molasses & placed new taxes on silk,
wine, coffee, pimento, and indigo.
Colonists get Angry
• Merchants felt the Sugar Act hurt trade &
argued that it violated traditional English
rights.
• Colonists argued that they were being
“taxed without representation”
in Parliament.
• Currency Act of 1764 –banned
use of paper money to payoff
debts, angers farmers
Stamp Act Crisis
• Parliament passed the Stamp Act in
1765, most printed material now taxed
– First direct tax Britain placed on the colonists.
• Next, the Quartering Act, forced the
colonists to pay to house British soldiers
• Parliament, passed the Declaratory Act,
which gave them the power to make laws
for the colonies.
Colonists Respond
• By the summer of 1765, demonstrations
against the stamp tax took place in the
colonies.
• Colonial merchants signed a
nonimportation agreement, agreeing not
to buy any British goods until the Stamp
Act was repealed.
• The protests led to the Stamp Act being
repealed in 1766.
Townshend Acts
• The Revenue Act of 1767, placed
new customs duties on glass, lead,
paper, paint, and tea imported into
the colonies. 
• The Townshend Acts gave British
officials the right to seize property
without following due process. 
Colonists Resist the British
• John Dickinson published a series
called Letters from a Pennsylvania
Farmer, asking colonists to resist the
Townshend Acts 
• The Sons of Liberty encouraged
colonists to boycott British goods. 
• Imports from Britain declined sharply
from what they had been the year
before. 
Britain gives in…again
• After the Boston Massacre, the British
seen as killers of people who stand up
for their rights. 
• In response, Britain
repealed the
_____________
Townshend Acts,
leaving only one
tax–on tea–to
uphold its right
to tax colonies.
Checking for Understanding
Define Match the terms on the right with their definitions on
the left.
__ 1. the loss of value of money
A. customs duty
__ 2. a tax on imports and exports
B. inflation
__ 3. a search warrant enabling
customs officers to enter any
location to look for evidence
of smuggling
C. nonimportation
agreement
__ 4. a pledge by merchants not to
buy imported goods from a
particular source
D. writ of assistance
British Acts
Proclamation of
1763
Sugar Act
Stamp Act
Quartering Act
Declaratory Act
Townshend Act
Tea Act
Coercive /
Intolerable Acts
Quebec Act
British Action
Colonial Reaction
British
Response
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