HISTORY 1DD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mercantilism, First Continental Congress, Royal Proclamation Of 1763
3 Oct 2016
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British wanted colonies to have some liberties as people in britain. Navigation acts: passed in 17th century enforced throughout 18th century, restricted trade between american colonies and non-british merchants. American colonies and the seven years war 1756-63: between british and french. Fighting in caribbean, india, and north america: british use this as an opportunity to expand westwards (get resistance from natives, result: British take over great portions of the french northern territory, push french out of india and caribbean. British spend a lot of money (debt has doubled) Proclamation line of 1763: disallowed american settlers to move west past the line. Since british were in major debt, and they had armies to protect american colonies, they wanted settlers to pay a defence tax to the british government: would make the tax indirect. Stamp act (1765: taxes on paper and paper products, including newspapers, would help to pay for defence of colonies.
