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Britain Needs Money $$$$

Early Conflicts with Britain. Britain Needs Money $$$$. Main Idea : The British government spent a lot of money on the French and Indian War and needed more. Tax : money that people pay to their government in return for services.

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Britain Needs Money $$$$

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  1. Early Conflicts with Britain Britain Needs Money $$$$ Main Idea: The British government spent a lot of money on the French and Indian War and needed more. Tax: money that people pay to their government in return for services. Sugar Act: new tax law created by Britain (sugar, coffee, cloth, etc…) http://www.history.com/videos/the-sons-of-liberty-and-the-boston-tea-party#colonists-protest-british-policies

  2. Early Conflicts with Britain Britain Needs Money $$$$ Smuggling: import goods illegally how merchants brought goods into the colonies so Britain couldn’t tax them Stamp Act: taxed anything printed on paper

  3. Early Conflicts with Britain • Liberty: freedom from being controlled by another government • Protest: an event at which people complain about an issue.

  4. Early Conflicts with Britain • New taxes upset the colonists! Why: • They had no say! (taxation without representation) • Sons of Liberty: protests taxes by • Organizing protests • Used violence to resist

  5. Samuel Adams: • Important leader of the Sons of Liberty

  6. Early Conflicts with Britain Conflict over Taxes Boycott: a group of people refuse to buy, sell, or use certain goods Repeal: to cancel a law Britain repealed the Stamp Act but created new taxes: The Townshend Act! (Why? Needed money to pay for services of governors and soldiers)

  7. Early Conflicts with Britain Conflict over Taxes Daughters of Liberty: women who protested the Townshend Acts by weaving their own cloth so they would not have to buy cloth from Britain

  8. Early Conflicts with Britain Result of boycotts/protests: British merchants lost money, British removed some taxes, but the tax on tea remained… Why? To show POWER!!! Read p. 234-239 http://www.mrnussbaum.com/history/bostonmassacre.htm#video

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