French & Indian War: Effects

Why were Colonists angered by the new taxes placed on the colonies following the French and Indian War?

Colonists angered were by the new taxes placed on the colonies following the French and Indian War because they felt that they should have representation in Parliament. Remember that phrase "No taxation without representation?" This is what they were talking about.

This law was passed in British Parliament in 1766. In this Act, Parliament claims the right to make laws for the American colonies. The issue of governing the colonies would become one of the major issues as the colonies moved towards independence.

Declaratory Act

Which political development greatly increased tensions between the American colonies and Great Britain in the years just before the American Revolution?

Following the French and Indian War, the Proclamation of 1763 angered the American colonists because the British refused to permit new colonial settlements west of the Appalachians. The fact that the Proclamation gave the British Crown a monopoly over land sales in the newly-won territory contributed to the growing divide between the colonies and the mother country. The other treaties and events in the answer choices all occurred in the decades following the American Revolution.

Which of these played an important role in causing the American Revolution?

One of the major issues that would eventually help cause the American Revolution was the French and Indian War. When the war ended in 1763, the British government began to tax the American colonists very heavily in order to recover the money spent on defending the colonies from the French and their Native American allies.

How did the French and Indian War influence the outbreak of the American Revolution?

The French and Indian War contributed to the outbreak of the American Revolution because Great Britain raised taxes on the colonies, which led to widespread protests and boycotts of British goods. None of the other answer choices are true regarding the impact of the French and Indian War on the conflict between Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies.

Law passed in 1765 requiring American Colonies to provide lodging for British troops.

Quartering Act

The British Parliament passed this law in 1774 to help administer its Canadian colonies, granting people there religious freedom and awarding it some lands coveted by the American colonists.

Quebec Act

This group of Patriots was formed in 1765 and urged colonial resistance to the Stamp Act using any means available... even violence.

Sons of Liberty

This was an Act passed in 1765 by the British, requiring all legal documents, contracts, newspapers, etc. in the American colonies to carry a tax stamp to help pay for the military presence in the colonies.

Stamp Act

This law - passed by Parliament in 1764- gained England much-needed revenue but was heavily resented by the American colonists.

Sugar Act

The Proclamation of 1763 and the Quebec Act of 1774 BOTH helped lay the groundwork for the American Revolution because they each

The Proclamation of 1763, among other things, forbade colonists of the thirteen colonies from settling or buying land west of the Appalachian Mountains. The Quebec Act of 1774 extended the territory's land control into the Ohio River valley, and area already claimed by several mid-Atlantic colonies. Therefore, they both interfered with colonial claims to western lands.

The hatred for the Quartering Act, passed by Parliament to affect the British colonies in North America, can be seen in which Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?

The Third Amendment reads 'No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.' Prior to the start of the Revolution, the British had 'quartered' their soldiers in American homes saying it was for the protection of the colonists, but it was actually a thinly-veiled attempt to keep an eye on the colonists.

English passed laws in 1767 that placed a tax on common goods (glass, paper, tea etc.) imported into the American Colonies.

Townshend Act

In the years leading up to the American Revolution, American colonists believed that they were not represented in Great Britain's Parliament, and therefore the laws enacted by Parliament regarding the Colonies were invalid. What term, coined by George Grenville, describes the authority upon which the British Parliament claimed to be acting?

Virtual representation refers to the concept supported by the Declaratory Act of 1766, which British Parliament passed to establish their right to legistlate for the American colonies.