New British Policies and the Boston Tea Party

How did the British try to deal with $100 million debt after the French & Indian War?  

• Demand payment from the French 
• Declare bankruptcy 
• Tax the colonists 
• Increase trade 

After the Proclamation of 1763:

• Colonists were happy with their rule by the British

• Colonist preferred the cozy life east of the Appalachian Mountains and did not want to expand West

• Colonists were angry about the limits that the British put on their freedom

• Colonists got bored and moved back to Britain

The Townshend Acts were different from the Stamp Act because ___________.

• the Townshend Acts were a direct tax on imports, while the Stamp Act imposed duties on sugar

• the Townshend Acts were enacted before the Stamp Act, making them the first tax.
• the Townshend Acts imposed taxes on imports, whereas the Stamp Act was a direct tax on printed materials.

• the Townshend Acts only affected the colonies in the South, whereas the Stamp Act affected all colonies.

To avoid paying taxes, the colonists started __________________.

• smuggling
• bribing
• not buying things
• making molasses

Colonists refused to buy British tea because

• England's Parliament was taxing them without representation
• they did not like the taste of British tea
• they did not agree with paying taxes at all

One of the ways women protested the Townshend Acts was by

• Boycotting British goods

• Buying Canadian goods

• Pouring sugar into the harbor

• Renouncing their British citizenship

Name 2 Policies or Laws that the British enacted in the colonies and write the colonists’ reaction below.

The British policy was.... The Colonists reacted like...

(From IXL): Read this excerpt from Andrew Burnaby, a British visitor to the colonies: [The] difference of character, of manners, of religion, of interest, of the different colonies [is so great that if they were] left to themselves there would soon be a civil war.

Why did Burnaby think America would never be an independent nation from Britain?

• The Colonists signed a pledge to Great Britain after the French and Indian War

• The colonies were united by their support of Great Britain

• There were too many differences between the colonies

• Colonial businesses needed British customers

"It is . . . essential to the freedom of a people . . . that no taxes be imposed on them [without] their own [agreement] given personally or by their own representatives.”

What does this mean?

• Freedom is essential

• Taxes shouldn’t be imposed on people

• No taxation without representation or personal agreement

• No taxes without personal agreement

One of the several reasons why the Boston Tea Party was significant is:

• It was a major act of defiance

• It led to the French & Indian War

• The Tea Act Congress was created

• It improved trade relations with Britain

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