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1. As soon as Great Britain acquired Canada and the eastern part of the Mississippi valley from France, and Florida from Spain, she did three things:

A. She established the provinces of Quebec, East Florida, West Florida, and the Indian country.

B. She drew a line round the sources of all the rivers flowing into the Atlantic from the west and northwest, and commanded the colonial governors to grant no land and to allow no settlements to be made west of this line.

C. She decided to send a standing or permanent army to America to take possession of the new territory and defend the colonies.

2. A part of the cost of keeping up this army she decided to meet by taxing the colonists. This she had never done before.

3. The chief tax was the stamp duty on paper, vellum, etc. This the colonists refused to pay, and Parliament repealed it.

4. The colonists having denied the right of Parliament to tax them, that body determined to establish its right and passed the "Townshend Acts." But the colonists refused to buy British goods, and Parliament repealed all the Townshend duties except that on tea.

5. As the Americans would not order tea from London, the East India Company was allowed to send it. But the people in the five cities to which the tea was sent destroyed it or sent it back.

6. Parliament thereupon attempted to punish Massachusetts and passed the Intolerable Acts.

7. These acts led to the calling and the meeting of the First Continental Congress.

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France Spain

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Cape Breton. Florida

Canada.

Louisiana east of

the Mississippi.

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and cuts the new territory (1763) into

Province of Quebec,

East Florida,

West Florida,

Indian country,

and draws proclamation line

limiting colonies in the west.

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New colonial policy necessary.

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Country to be defended by 10,000 royal troops.

Cost of troops to be paid

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Partly by crown. Partly by colonies.

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Share of colonies to be raised by

Enforcing acts of trade and navigation.

Taxes on sugar and molasses.

Stamp tax (1765).

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Resisted. Principle involved.

Action of Virginia and Massachusetts.

Stamp Act Congress.

Act repealed (1766).

Declaratory Act (1766).

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——————— | Painters' colors | Resisted and repealed (1770)

Townshend Acts | Paper. |

(1767). | Tea. /

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Enforced.

Resisted (1773).

Resistance / \

punished by | Five Intoler- | Continental

| able Acts. | Congress called(1774).

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