Cartoon Book “Answers”
Proclamation of 1763
Passed to save money and prevent any more Native American uprisings
Who/What was responsible?
□Passed by Parliament
□Problems w/ Native Amer.
□Pontiacs Rebellion
□England
Who was most severely affected?
□Farmers
□All colonies
What was the Act or what did it do?
□Stopped colonists going over the mountains
What was the reaction of the colonists?
□Many ignored and moved west anyway
When did the issue begin?
□1763
□After French & Indian War
Why was this an issue?
□England should protect colonists
□Colonists felt they earned the right to move west
□Colonists wanted to make money on the fur trade
Quartering Act
Passed to save money so Britain won’t have to pay for housing of soldiers
Who/What was responsible?
□King George 3rd
□Parliament
Who was most severely affected?
□Colonists living in the city
What was the Act or what did it do?
□Colonists have to house British soldiers
What was the reaction of the colonists?
□Anger
□Colonists refuse to pay for the soldiers
When did the issue begin?
□1765
Why was this an issue?
□Had to house soldiers w/o consent – expensive!
□No representation in Parliament
Sugar Act
Passed to raise government revenue (money) to pay off the debt from the F&I War.
Who/What was responsible?
□Parliament
Who was most severely affected?
□--Merchants
□--All colonists
What was the Act or what did it do?
□Tax on sugar, molasses, tea, wine, textiles
What was the reaction of the colonists?
□Boycott
□ Protest
□“No Taxation w/o Representation” – James Otis
When did the issue begin?
□1764
Why was this an issue?
□Indirect tax to pay the war debt
□Colonists want a voice in Parliament - Taxation w/o representation
Stamp Act
Passed to raise government revenue (money) to pay off the debt from the F&I War.
Who/What was responsible?
□Parliament
Who was most severely affected?
□All colonies
□Lawyers, Newspaper Editors
What was the Act or what did it do?
□Tax now on newspapers, cards, dice, legal documents
What was the reaction of the colonists?
□Protests
□Violence – Attack officials (Tar and Feather)
□Sons of Liberty formed
□Stamp Act Congress
□Petition the King
When did the issue begin?
□1765
Why was this an issue?
□Direct tax (visible – stamp)
□Colonists want a voice in Parliament, Taxation w/o representation
STAMP ACT – REPEALED BY PARLIAMENT IN 1766
Declaratory Act
Passed to reassert control over the Colonies.
Who/What was responsible?
□Parliament
Who was most severely affected?
□All colonists
What was the Act or what did it do?
□Parliament declares they have supreme control over the colonies
□Parliament passed this act when they repealed the Stamp Act
What was the reaction of the colonists?
□Tried to ignore it
When did the issue begin?
□1766
Why was this an issue?
□Colonists believe they should control themselves
□Salutary Neglect is being ignored/changed
Townshend Acts
Passed to raise government revenue (money) to pay off the debt from the F&I War.
Who/What was responsible?
□Charles Townshend
□Parliament
Who was most severely affected?
□All colonists
□NY colonists
What was the Act or what did it do?
□Closed New York Assembly
□New taxes on lead, glass, paper, paint, tea.
□Created Writs of Assistance (Like a Search Warrant)
What was the reaction of the colonists?
□Protests, Riots, Boston Massacre
□Boycotts
□Committees of Correspondence formed
When did the issue begin?
□1767
Why was this an issue?
□Illegal search and seizure
□Taxation w/o representation
Tea Act
Passed to raise government revenue (money) to pay off the debt from the F&I War.
Who/What was responsible?
□Parliament
Who was most severely affected?
□Shippers, merchants
What was the Act or what did it do?
□Lowered price of Tea
□Gave control of Tea Trade to Brit East Ind. Company (Monopoly)
What was the reaction of the colonists?
□Refused to unload tea from ships
□Boston Tea Party (Sons of Liberty)
□block ships from England
When did the issue begin?
□1773
Why was this an issue?
□Taxation w/o representation
Intolerable Acts
Passed to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party and reassert control over the colonies.
Who/What was responsible?
□Parliament
Who was most severely affected?
□Boston
□Mass. Colony
What was the Act or what did it do?
□Punish Tea Party
□Close port of Boston
□Ban Committees of Correspondence
□British troops HQ in Boston
□British officials tried of crimes in England
What was the reaction of the colonists?
□1st Continental Congress in Philly
□Colonies agree to help Boston
□Ban trade w/ England
□Militias formed
□Lexington and Concord
When did the issue begin?
□1774
Why was this an issue?
□Independence is near.
□Colonists are outraged over “punishment”
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