Period 3 APUSH

French and Indian War

• conflict between France and Great Britain over territory (Ohio River Valley)

• British colonists were expanding and wanted to move there but the French owned it.

• started 1754 caused by George Washington

• Started in North America but then spread to India and Africa (1st World War)

• Great Britain won the War

Effects of French and Indian War

• Treaty of Paris (1763)

• Great Britain prevented westward expansion (proclamation line of 1763)

• winning this war was costly

• Great Britains War Debt

Treaty of Paris 1763

• changed the map of North America

• Spain had Florida

• Ohio River Valley Given to the colonists

Proclamation line of 1763

Didn’t led British colonists migrate west beyond the Appalachian mountains

War Debt in Britain

• taking care of the colonies got more expensive 5x (Population grew)

Causes of the American Revolution

• enforced existing laws but colonies ignored because of salutary neglect.

• New taxes to pay down war debt

Navigation Acts

restricted trade to Great Britain alone

after French and Indian War reinforced the Navigation Acts and ended salutary neglect

Quartering Act

required colonial subjects to house and feed members of the British military.

Stamp Act of 1765

tax on news paper, diplomas, or playing cards

Colonists resented how they were being taxed without representation in Parliament “No taxation without representation”

Argument about taxation without representation

No colonists were in the British Parliament

Greenville argued that they had virtual representation

colonists believed representation of them must be local because British don’t understand their needs

Taxation protests

• Committees of Correspondence (spread information about colonial unfair treatment)

• Stamp Act Congress

• Colonial tensions (Boston Massacre) (Boston Tea Party) (Coercive Acts)

Sons of Liberty & Daughters of Liberty

taxation protests created by artisans merchants and traders

Stamp Act Congress

nine colonies petitioned for Parliament to repeal the Stamp Act

parliament ended up repealing stamp act in 1766

Declaratory Act

Parliament claimed full power and authority to make laws which includes the American colonies in all cases.

Boston Massacre

British soldiers opened fire on a group of protester in Boston and ended up killing 5 Bostonians

Boston Tea Party

dumped 50 tons of British tea into the Boston Harbor.

Coercive Acts

laws designed to punish Massachusetts and restore imperial order after the Boston Tea Party.

Closed Boston Harbor until tea was paid for.

Americans named this “intolerable acts”

Revolutionary Ideas

• Enlightenment ideas (natural rights: life, liberty, and property given by God) & The Social Contract

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