War Debt & Taxation
This is the money a government collects from its citizens to pay for public services and debts.
What are taxes?
This King of England issued the Proclamation of 1763 right after Britain won a major war.
Who is King George III?
After the French and Indian War, Britain ended its policy of "salutary blank," where it had mostly left the colonies alone to govern themselves.
What is neglect?
This 1763 treaty officially ended the French and Indian War, causing France to give up almost all its land in North America.
What is the Treaty of Paris
As colonists moved into the Ohio River Valley, they built farms and settlements, which destroyed the hunting grounds that Native Americans needed to survive.
What are hunting grounds
After winning the French and Indian War, Britain taxed common items like paper in the colonies to pay off their large debt. This 1765 tax was called the Blank Act.
What is the Stamp Act?
The Proclamation created an imaginary boundary line down the Appalachian Mountains, telling colonists they couldn't settle blank of that line.
Where is west of the Appalachian Mountains
Britain used Writs of Assistance during this time, which were general search warrants allowing British officials to search colonists' homes and ships without specific cause.
What are search warrants
After this treaty, Great Britain gained control of Canada and all French land east of the Mississippi River.
What is territory
Unlike the French, who often traded and married into Native American tribes, the British usually just wanted this from the Native American people.
What is land?
American colonists famously complained about "No Blank without representation," meaning they didn't want to pay taxes if they couldn't vote on them in Britain's Parliament.
What is taxation?
Britain said the line was meant to keep peace with the Native American tribes and prevent a conflict like this rebellion led by a Native American chief.
What is Pontiac's Rebellion?
This British law forced colonists to provide housing and supplies for British soldiers stationed in America, which angered many citizens.
What is the Quartering Act?
Without their long-standing French enemies to worry about, American colonists felt less dependent on Britain for protection and more willing to demand their rights.
What is independence
After the French left North America, a Native American chief named Pontiac led a rebellion and surprise attacks on British forts in the Great Lakes region.
What is Pontiac's Rebellion?
To help pay for wars when the government runs short of cash, citizens can buy these special "promise notes" from the government, which pay them back later with interest.
What are war bonds
The colonists disliked the Proclamation because it stopped them from moving west onto the cheap, fertile land they felt they had earned the right to settle after the war.
What is westward settlement/expansion
The increased taxes and strict laws shifted the colonists' main goal from working with Britain to seeking this, meaning complete freedom and self-rule.
What is independence?
With the French gone, colonists looked forward to settling this land, a desire that was blocked by the British Proclamation of 1763.
What is the Ohio River Valley
The British tried to stop colonists from moving onto Native American land by creating an imaginary border line in 1763 along this mountain range.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
The U.S. government first started taking this tax directly out of people's paychecks during the Civil War to fund the war effort.
What is the income tax?
This war, which the British won just before the Proclamation, left Britain deeply in debt and changed how they managed their new North American territories.
What is the French and Indian War?
This term refers to the harsh laws passed by Parliament to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party, which united the other colonies in protest.
What are the Intolerable Acts
Losing the French as an ally was bad for this group, who were then left to face British and colonial expansion alone.
Who are the Native Americans
The British stopped giving Native American tribes free gifts like gunpowder and blankets after the war, which was an important tradition used to keep this between the groups.
What is peace