POL203Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: 6 Years, Intolerable Acts, Sugar Act
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13 colonies?- 14 missing colony might have been con ict between indigenous- almost all the time the colonists win- stopped expanding at the mountains. 13 colonies are british much more populated. Con ict over expansion between aboriginals-settlers disputes over land rights, sign treaties, colonists defend themselves form militia- kidnap the chief and sign a new deal, no one there to enforce the rules. Home rule: london far away so they let the colonies run themselves. Property, poll, excise, faculty and forced labour taxes=roads, hog reeves. Elected assemblies: local laws, taxes, limited franchise. World war- seven years war, la guerre de la conquete. Europe,americas,carribean, west africa, india and the philippines- con ict all over the world. Expensive- this war bankrupts britain- french lost the war. Sugar act - wine, no jury (1764)- stopped importing alcohol that wasn"t apart of the. British colony- they start to smuggle- jury would nd the smugglers not guilty.
