Wheres The Love

1
Wheres The Love

• Part 1

2
Wheres The Love? Part 1
England wants the colonies to help pay for the
war.
Sugar Act 1764
a tax on sugar products
Colonists were upset because they werent told
about the tax.
Taxation without Representation
You taxed us, but you didnt ask us.
3
The Stamp Act 1765
A tax on documents and other paper products
legal documents
marriage certificate
playing cards
The Stamp Act affected everybody.
4
Protest groups began to appear in the colonies
Sons of Liberty
Colonists began to boycott English goods
Boycott To Not support something
Eventually England repeals the Stamp Act
Repeal to take back a law
England send us two more laws
5
After the Stamp Act is repealed, England gives
the colonists 2 more laws.
Townshend Act
a tax on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea
6
Declaratory Act
taxed nothing
made a statement
England is in control of the colonies.
The colonies have to obey England
really made the colonists mad because they were
officially disrespected