HIS 2326 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Royal Proclamation Of 1763, Britishness, Legal Culture
23 Jul 2018
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What antagonized the americans: taxes and the restriction of expansion (royal proclamation) Intended to restrict american mvmt. into the ohio valley: antagonized the americans for a number of reasons, population had grown to 2. 5m colonists, drove up the cost of land, put immense pressure on families. Intended to prevent conflict: create fortifications on the line. Briton was paying considerably more: only raised 50-60 000 pounds, 1776: repealed. Intended to pay for the protection of the settlers themselves and such funds were already being primarily paid for by the mainland british people. 1765: stamp act is repealed: new gov"t, pm grenville and king didn"t get along, lord rockingham become pm (1765-66, are pro-american. Britain wanting to tell them what to do: best mp the american"s never elected. London had the right to govern and tax its colonists how they saw fit: their sovereign right, what did this mean, taxation needs to be tied to representation, americans just inherently hate taxation.
