Taxation and Mercantalism

Plan to put the colonies under a more centralized government. It was first made to help the colonies protect themselves during the French and Indian War.

War that put Britain into a so much debt that they needed to tax the colonies greatly. Started the hostility between Britain and the Colonies.

This treaty gave a lot of French land to Britain. It also removed a threat from the colonists. This made the colonists and Britain grow farther apart.

This proclamation after the French and Indian war angered the colonists because it stopped their western expansion.

The quartering act angered colonists because they were afraid of standing armies and the cost was high.

The actual cost was small but it opened the way for more taxes if left unrestrained. It was the first tax done to raise money.

Britain had the power to make laws over America like it did to Britain.

It put a tax on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea. The colonists boycotted English goods again. This led to the Boston Massacre.

A mob of Americans attacked a British squadron and the British fired and killed some of the Americans.

The tea act made a monopoly on tea. The colony saw this as taxation without representation so the colony boycotted the tea.