C H A P T E R 5 : S E C T I O N 1

• Prohibited colonists from moving west of the
Appalachian Mountains
• Allowed the British to control western movement
• Avoid conflicts with Native Americans
• Allowed trade between Britain and the colonies to flourish
• 10,000 troops placed in the colonies
• Increased revenue to pay for British troops
• Allowed Britain to control the fur trade

• Britain was in massive debt from the war
• Parliament believes that the colonists should pay part of the debt
• Protected the colonies
• Eliminated economic competition from France

• 1767
• Legal documents that allowed customs officers to enter any location to search for smuggled goods
• Vice Admiralty Courts – Smugglers are not allowed jury trials, instead facing military officers

• 1764
• Lowered tax on imported molasses
• Let officers seize goods from smugglers without going to court

• British actions violated their rights as English citizens
• Writs of assitance – Violated their right to be secure in their home
• Vice-Admiralty Courts - Violated their right to trial by jury

• 1765
• Placed a tax on almost all printed material
• Including:
• Newspapers
• Wills
• Playing cards
• All printed material had to have a stamp

• Patrick Henry- Convinces Virginia House of
Burgesses to pass a resolution against the Stamp
Act.
• Only Virginia can tax Virginians
• Samuel Adams
• Boston
• Sons of Liberty
• Burn effigies- rag figures- representing tax collectors and destroyed houses of royal officials
• Attempt to make royal officials quit enforcing the taxes

• Merchants boycott British goods
• Nonimportation agreements: Pledges not to buy or use goods imported from Britain
• Parliament repeals the Stamp Act in 1766
• Passes the Declaratory Act the same day
• Parliament has the right to tax and make decisions for the British colonies “in all cases”

• 1767
• Taxed imported goods such as:
• Glass
• Tea
• Paper
• Colonists organize another boycott
• Daughters of Liberty
• Urge Americans to wear homemade fabrics and produce other goods they need