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Impact of the British victory in the Great War for Empire Situation after the British victory over France Rumblings of American nationalism Awareness of distinctions between British and American military systems Retaliation of the British government for colonial actions during the war Imperial forces won the war while colonists traded with the enemy Efforts to use writs of assistance to stop illegal trade Colonists used the war to exact concessions from their governors Problems of managing defense in the newly captured lands to the north and east British politics and the colonies Government of George III Whiggish nature Intrigue and instability Problem of western lands Indian uprising in the Ohio region Proclamation Line of 1763 Restrict settlement Efforts to change the line Land speculators’ schemes Grenville program and effects Revenues for troops in the West Making colonists pay Vice admiralty court Sugar Act, 1764 Currency Act, 1764 Stamp Act, 1765 Quartering Act Ideology of colonial reaction Radical whiggery British tyranny "No taxation without representation" Stamp Act crisis Colonial demonstrations Idea of colonial unity Stamp Act Congress, October 1765 New Rockingham ministry Repeal of tax, 1776 Declaratory Act, March 1766 Increasing tensions with British Townshend duties Colonial reactions John Dickinson’s opposition Sam Adams Sons of Liberty Circular letter with James Otis Boston Massacre Townshend duties repealed except tax on tea Two years of relative peace Backcountry protests Vermont created Paxton Boys of Pennsylvania South Carolina Regulators North Carolina protests Crisis approaching More colonial protests Gaspee burned, 1772 Committees of Correspondence formed, after November 1772 Boston Tea Party Tea Act of 1773 Colonists’ protests George Robert Twelves Hewes British respond with Coercive Acts, 1774 Port of Boston closed Trials of officials transferred to England New quartering act for soldiers Massachusetts’s Council and law enforcement offices made appointive No town meetings Quebec Act, July 1774 First Continental Congress, September 1774 Rejects plan of union Accepts Suffolk Resolves Adopts Declaration of American Rights Endorses Continental Association Dominion theory of British Empire British response Lexington and Concord Conflict spreads Second Continental Congress convenes, 1775 Fall of Fort Ticonderoga Continental army established Battle of Bunker Hill Olive Branch Petition and Declaration for Taking Up Arms Authorized attack on Québec Growth of Congress Thomas Paine’s Common Sense Declaration of Independence Role of Jefferson Local declarations of independence George Mason’s influence Contract theory of government Causes of revolution