Moving Towards Revolution - Hayden Galloway P5 IB History...

Hayden Galloway
P5 IB History Of the Americas
1-15-19
Significance of 1763 as a turning point: Treaty of Paris, Increase British control of the colonies.
British Action Rationale Colonial reaction Rational
Proclamation of
1763
● Following the French and
Indian War, westward
expansion once again
resumed for the colonists in
English North America.
● This angered the natives
whose lands were being
intruded upon, and under an
Ottawa Chief named
Pontiac, an alliance of
different native tribes began
resisting colonial growth
into their territory (Pontiac's
Rebellion)
● To prevent further fighting,
the British Empire drew a
line on the Appalachian
Mountains and declared that
the colonists weren’t
allowed to expand
westward.
failure to comply
-Helped to restrict
illegal fur trade
-Many native tribes
supported the
Proclamation in
hopes of creating a
definitive boundary
between whites and
themselves
-Colonists ignored the
treaty and continued
to expand westward.
Social unrest was common in
coastal New England.
● With the rapid economic
and population growth,
more and more people
wished to expand and
take new lands to make
more money.
● As the land was taken
up in the established
boundaries east of the
Appalachians, settlers
began pushing past in
hopes of better
prospects.
● The colonies were not
used to direct English
control and disliked it.
They believed
expansion should be
their own matter and
they should be the ones
to deal with it.
Sugar Act ● The act supplemented the
ending of the Molasses Act
which was a large tax on all
Molasses, however, it was
so expensive that it was
rarely enforced.
● To avoid this problem the
English Parliament made the
tax half of what the
Molasses tax was and in turn
promised stricter
enforcement.
● The act was to raise revenue
from sugar, and was not
meant to restrict its trading.
● The revenue was needed by
Boston experimented
with boycotts on
British products
Sent petitions to
England which were
ignored
● The Sugar Act came to
the colonies at a time of
a small economic
depression and the
colonists were more
angry about its effect on
the economy than
anything else.
● It also led to economic
decline of molasses as
smuggling it became
very dangerous and
risky with higher levels
of enforcement,
● slowed the entire trade
of molasses and rum in

the English Empire to pay
off debts from the Seven
Years War which largely
occured in the America’s
against the French forces, so
the English believed that
they should help pay for the
debt.
the America’s which
was a very large
economic source for the
colonies.
● The believed it affected
there trading which was
big in the northern
colonies, and this upset
many people, especially
merchants that relied on
sea trade to survive.