REVIEW OF FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR

● Which countries fought in the war?

● Why were they fighting?
● Who won?
● What happened after they won the war?
● Who fought on the same side with the British? With the
French?

● The French and Indian War was just the beginning of events
and causes that eventually led to the Revolutionary War.
AFTER THE WAR

● Because Britain won the French and Indian

War, it cost them a lot of money and the
King (King George III) wanted to find a way
to pay off the debt from the war.
● So, he and the British government
(Parliament) decided that they were going to
start taxing the American colonies.
THE SUGAR ACT

● In 1764, Britain created the first new tax called

the Sugar Act.
● This act placed a tax on sugar, molasses, coffee,
and cloth that was imported to the colonies.
● Some colonists got so angry about this new tax
that they started smuggling (importing illegally)
these items so that they didn’t have to pay the
taxes on them!
THE STAMP ACT

● In 1765, the government (Parliament) created

another tax called the Stamp Act. This act taxed
anything printed on paper. For example, legal
papers, cards, newspapers, books, etc.
STAMP ACT CONGRESS
● In October of 1765, nine colonies sent representatives to
a meeting in New York City called the Stamp Act
Congress.
● This congress decided that only the colonial governments
could tax the colonists. After the meeting, many
merchants (people who buy and sell goods) in the big
port cities like New York and Philadelphia agreed to
boycott (refuse to buy, sell, or use goods) the goods
coming from Britain.
● It worked! Parliament agreed to repeal (cancel) the
Stamp Act in 1766.
THE QUARTERING ACT
● After the British won the French and Indian War
they kept soldiers in the Ohio River Valley to
protect the land they had won.
● When Britain passed the Quartering Act in 1765,
it forced colonists to house (take in) British
soldiers into their own homes and offer them food
and whatever else they needed.
● How do you think the colonists felt about this act?
TOWNSHEND ACTS
● Even though Parliament repealed the Stamp Act, it still
needed money.
● In 1767, it created new taxes. These new taxes were
called the Townshend Acts and they put a tax on the tea,
glass, lead, paints, and paper that the colonies imported.
● In response to the Townshend Acts, colonists held a
boycott of the British goods they bought the most.
Instead of importing the goods, such as cloth, the
colonists decided to make their own.
NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!

● Colonists felt that Britain should not even tax tea unless
the colonies had representatives in Parliament.
● Although most of the taxes had been repealed, anger
towards the British government continued to grow. They
believed that their local elected representatives, not
Parliament, should pass tax laws for the colonies.
● At this point colonists had representatives in their local
governments, but none in Parliament.
● Throughout the colonies, people started yelling “No
taxation without representation!”
SUMMARY

● Why did Britain create the new taxes?

● How did the colonists react to them?
● Why was boycotting an effective solution to the
problem of taxes?
● Why were the colonists angry about the new
taxes?
● What does “No taxation without representation!”
mean?