Social Studies (ALEX)
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- The Navigation Acts were a series of laws passed by the British Parliament that imposed restrictions on colonial trade.
- British economic policy was based on mercantilism, which aimed to use the American colonies to bolster British state power and finances.
- We have to little land! We need more! - British person
- The French and Indian war was a series of military engagements between Britain and France in North America between 1754 and 1763.
- The Proclamation Line of 1763(Not Exact)
- The Proclamation, in effect, closed off the frontier to colonial expansion. The King and his council presented his proclamation as a measure to calm the fears on the Native Americans.
- The Stamp Act of 1765 was the first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British Parliament. The act, which imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies.
- No Taxation Without Representation!
- No Taxation Without Representation!
- This slogan was said by the colonists to protest their say on taxes on basic items.
- The Quartering Acts was made so the colonists would have to provide shelter to the British troops.
- Why should we have to pay tax on glass, lead, paper, and tea!!??
- Why should I let the British in my Home?!
- The Townshend Act was made to tax the colonists on goods such as paper, glass, lead, and tea.
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