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1754-1763 Dbq

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To begin we must travel back to 1754-1763 with the war between Britain and France or better known as the French and Indian war. Due to the war, British would now have debt demanding more from the colonies, thus passing a Proclamation to prohibit settlement beyond the Appalachian Mountains. King George the 3rd would begin to create these laws or acts against the american colonist for goods and material that was shipped to them. From 1764 to 1767 the British under King George, taxed the american colonist with a Sugar act tax, the Stamp act law, the Declaratory act, and Townshend acts. The sugar act would raise the tax on sugar goods being shipped. A Stamp act law put taxes on paper goods such as newspapers, books, and legal documents. In the

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