As Great Britain sought to tighten its control over the American colonies following the French and Indian War, colonial dissatisfaction grew. Great Britain imposed taxes like the Stamp Act to raise revenue to pay off war debts. Additionally, the Proclamation of 1763 restricted colonial expansion westward. This increased control and taxation without colonial representation in Parliament led many colonists to become resentful of British rule and dissatisfied with their lack of autonomy, sowing the seeds for the American Revolutionary War.

1. SOL USI.6a:
Sources of Colonial
Dissatisfaction
6th Grade Portsmouth Public Schools

2. As
Great Britain expanded control over
the American colonies, many colonists
became dissatisfied and rebellious.
Essential Knowledge

3. What
steps did Great Britain take to
increase its control over the colonies?
Why
did many colonists become
dissatisfied with Great Britain’s control
over the colonies?
Essential Questions

4. Key Words
Stamp
Act: an act
passed by British
Parliament that
required a tax on
all printed items
such as newspaper
and legal
documents.

5. Key Words
Proclamation
of
1763: King George
III of England
prohibited the
westward
movement of
colonists across the
Appalachian
Mountains.
http://energy.er.usgs.gov/images/regional_studies/appalachians/app_mtns2.jpg

6. Key Words
Parliament:
the
British legislature
made up of the
House of Lords and
the House of
Commons.
http://european-union.ca/images/ukparliament.jpg

7. Great Britain’s Reasons for
Control
Great
Britain
wanted to remain a
world power.

8. In
the American colonies, Great Britain’s
desire to remain a world power resulted in
a conflict with the French known as the
French and Indian War.
Great Britain’s Reasons for Control

9. Great Britain’s Reasons for
Control
Great
Britain
imposed taxes,
such as the Stamp
Act, to raise
revenue to pay the
cost of the French
and Indian War.

10. Great Britain's Reasons for
Taxation
Great
Britain
wanted to finance
the French and
Indian War.
http://www.americanrevolution.com/images/FrenchandIndianWar1.jpg

11. Great Britain’s Reasons for
Taxation
To
help with the
maintaining of
British troops in the
colonies.

12. Sources of Colonial
Dissatisfaction
Colonies
had no
representation in
Parliament.
http://constitutionday.cpms.osd.mil/508/page03.jpg

13. Sources of Colonial
Dissatisfaction
Some
colonists
resented the power
of colonial
governors.
Sir William Berkeley, a British colonial
governor of Virginia.
http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=31217&rendTypeId=4

14. Sources of Colonial
Dissatisfaction
Great
Britain
wanted control
over colonial
legislatures.
The House of Burgesses,
Williamsburg, VA.
http://www.history.org/Almanack/places/hb/cappc2.jpg

15. Sources of Colonial
Dissatisfaction
Colonies
taxes.
opposed

16. Sources of Colonial
Dissatisfaction
Proclamation
of
1763, which
followed the French
and Indian war,
restricted western
movement of
settlers.
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/4/4c/300px-Map_of_territorial_growth_1775.jpg

17. Why
would these things make the
colonists angry?
Which
colonial dissatisfaction do you think
was most important in leading to the
Revolutionary War? Why?
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