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= **French and Indian War** 1756 - 1763 =

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= Proclamation of 1763 = =The Proclamation of 1763 was written after the French and Indian War. The Proclamation was a law that no more settlers were to come on the Indian's land west of the Appalachian Mountains. The British King, George III, gave this order as an official announcement or Proclamation. The King drew a line on a map along the middle of the Appalachian Mountains, from New York to Georgia. No colonists were to settle west of that line. He proclaimed this because settlers were coming on the Indian's land which made the Indians get mad and fight back. Then the King would have to send troops to protect the settlers. This proclamation also said that the settlers who were already living there had to move east. People were very angry and they continued moving in anyway. It resulted in Colonial discontent.=
 * Colonists were angry because the king ordered the colonists not to settle in the lands west of the Appalachians. The French and Indian War ( also known as the "Seven Years War ") saw the British pitted against the French, the Austrians, and the Spanish. This war raged across the globe. By the end of 1758, the British had begun to turn the tide in the war in North America. In September 1759 the British attacked Quebec. After a five-day battle, British and American forces captured Quebec, ending French control of Canada. In February 1763, the Treaty of Paris was signed. In this treaty, title to all French territory; east of the Mississippi, was ceded to the British. **======



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= Sugar Act 1764 =

== In 1764 the British for the first time imposed a series of taxes designed specifically to raise revenue from the colonies. The tax whose official name was the American Revenue Act, became popularly known as the Sugar Act. One of its major components was the raising of a tariff on sugar. The act was combined with a greater attempt to enforce the existing tariffs. This act placed a tax or tariff on molasses, sugar, wine, and coffee. == == The Stamp Act 1765 In 1765 a Stamp Tax was enacted. It imposed taxes on all legal documents (i.e. marriage licenses, newspapers, and 47 other documents). The colonists responded with vocal protests. Not only did these taxes hurt their pocketbooks, but they were highly visible (i.e. they were needed for every day transactions). In addition, to enforce the actions, the British announced that colonial offenders were to be tried in the hated Admiralty courts. The protests, which grew, began developing new slogans including "No taxation without representation". One result of the protests was the meeting of the Stamp Act Congress in New York, to which many of the colonies sent representatives. Many colonies agreed not to import any British goods until the Stamp Tax was repealed. On the day the Stamp Tax was supposed to go into effect all of the stamp commissioners were forced to resign. With such active opposition from colonists, there was no way to enforce this tax.. In 1766, the British parliament repealed the Stamp Tax. Stamp Act Congress brought 9 colonies together for the first time. Great Britain eventually repealed the Stamp Act. = = = = =Stamp Act= = ﻿  =
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