ESPERANZA GONZALEZ

THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR

• Britain defeated France in the French and Indian wars
• After the war, the colonists felt more secure
• Britain was left with a large debt in fighting in the war

KING GEORGE III

• He issued a royal proclamation to prevent Indian attacks
• The king declared that the colonist can't settle west of the Appalachian Mountains
• The king had to raise taxes so he could pay soldiers to bring colonist back

TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION

• Wealthy colonial merchants used to acting in their colonial assemblies
• Colonial leaders were also influenced by enlightment writers
• Locke wrote that government was social contract and protected individual righs

PROCLAMATION OF 1763

• The first disputes concerned the opening of the west
• Following the victory in the French and Indian war, colonists wanted to move to the new land
• A serious problem for the British, however, was maintaining peace with the Indians on these lands

SUGAR ACT

• This act reduce the tax on imported sugar in half
• It took steps to enforce it more strictly
• A journalist and politician in Boston, organized protests against the sugar act

SAMUEL ADAM

• Samuel Adam and colonist went to argue
• He argued that the British government should not tax the colonist
• He believed that "taxation without representation" was "tyranny"

JOHN LOCKE/SOCIAL CONTRACT