England Increases Control Over
the Colonies
Objectives
• Students will be able to identify the
Political and Economic Relationships
between the Colonies and Great Britain
that led to the Revolutionary War.
Indians attack the colonists
for taking land
The King sent British soldiers to help
to protect their colonies.
French and Indian War
The French
helped the
Indians,
hoping to
get more of
the land
from the
English
colonists.
England’s reason for control
• England desired to
remain a world
power.
• England imposed
taxes to raise
necessary funds to
pay the cost of the
French and Indian
War.
England’s reason for taxation
• To help pay for the French and
Indian War
• To help with the maintaining of
(keeping ) English soldiers in the
colonies
Sources of colonial dissatisfaction
Colonies opposed taxes.
Colonies had no representation
in Parliament.
Sources of colonial dissatisfaction
• Some colonists
resented power
of colonial
governors.
Sources of colonial dissatisfaction
• England wanted
strict control
over colonial
legislatures.
• The
Proclamation
of 1763
hampered the
western
movement of
settlers.