Question

what did france lose

Answer 1

During what time period?

Answer 2

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can you be more specific?

Answer 3

the french and indian war

Answer 4

oh!

Answer 5

They lost a lot land which was the core of New France, and also part of Louisiana, at the time not the state of Louisiana as we know it but a region large to more than 12 American states. After this war the French lost everything they had after 1534 and well left with the microscopic Islands of St Pierre and Miquelon to this day part of France.

Answer 6

what did the war cost native americans?

Answer 7

The colonists had been clamoring for the removal of the French from North America. The English Parliament had always said "No." The colonists saw this as a great opportunity to finally remove the French. A great many fought in the war.

At wars end, even having won the war, the King did NOT invite the French to leave. Instead, he handed down the Proclamation of 1763. It forbid the colonists from expanding into the Ohio River Valley. It required that any colonists already living in the ORV to give up his home and land holdings and move back into the already overcrowded eastern sea board colonies.

Also in the proclamation, the French were given everything west of the Appalachian Mountains. It placed the Native Indians between the French and the English colonists as a sort of buffer zone. Lastly, it forbid the colonists from doing business with the French and Indians -- most specifically, business transactions related to real estate.

Because it was a war the British never wanted to fight, because it was fought on two continents and was EXTREMELY costly, Parliament and the crown decided to raise and institute new taxes on the colonists. All of this was a slap in the face to the colonists and would ultimately feed the fire of revolution against the crown.

Answer 8

why did the british parliament passed the stamp act? how did colonist respond to the act?

Answer 9

Why do you think they passed the stamp act? And how do you think the colonist responded to the act? This is not hard if you have actually looked into it

Answer 10

i dont have any books thats why im asking

Answer 11

The Stamp Act required that many printed materials in the colonies carry a tax stamp. The purpose of the tax was to help pay for troops stationed in North America following the British victory in the Seven Years' War. The British government felt that the colonies were the primary beneficiaries of this military presence, and should pay at least a portion of the expense.

In 1765, the British Parliament enacted the Stamp Act as a means of raising colonial tax revenues to help defray the cost of the French and Indian War in North America. The Colonists reacted immediately, asserting that the Stamp Act was an attempt to raise money in the colonies without the approval of colonial legislatures. Resistance to the act was demonstrated through debates in the colonial legislatures, written documents (including legislative resolves, prints, and songs), and mob/crowd actions such as tarring and feathering tax collectors. In this lesson, students will analyze several eighteenth-century documents to determine colonial opinions of Great Britain's attempts to tax the colonists in the 1760s.

Answer 12

why did they british pass the townshed act? how did colonist respond? how did british respond to the colonist?

Answer 13

The Townshend Acts was a series of acts that occurred during the 18th century and it placed duties on imported glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea. It was passed on June 1767 by the Parliament. The acts were named after Charles Townshend, who proposed the program. The Revenue Acts, Indemnity Act, Commissioners Act, New York Restraining Act, and the Vice Admiralty Court Act were the series of acts passed in the Townshend Acts. The purpose of the Townshend Acts was to raise revenue to be used in part to support colonial governors, judges, customs officers and British army in America. Also, to create a more effective means of enforcing agreement with trade regulations, to establish a law that the British Parliament had the right to tax the colonists. The Townshend Acts affected the colonists in many ways and the colonists reacted in variety of way.

There are couple different series of acts in the Townshend Acts and many laws that go with it. One of them is the Revenue Acts, this act set new taxes on British goods-paper, paint, lead, glass, tea. This act used revenues to maintain British Troops in America and to pay salaries of some royal officials. The Indemnity Act removed duties on tea shipped to the colonies by the British East India Company so that British tea could compete with Dutch-shipped tea. The Commissioners Act implemented firmer customs enforcement and assigned five new custom officials. The New York Restraining Act, this act ordered the suspension of the New York assembly if it did not fully comply with the 1765 Quartering Act. Finally, the Vice Admiralty Court Act created new courts in which colonial smugglers would be prosecuted without a jury and in which to try smugglers.


Front page of the Boston Gazette containing the Massachusetts Circular Letter written by Samuel Adams.

There was a letter that Samuel Adams wrote protesting the Townshend Acts. This letter was called the Massachusetts Circular Letter. On the letter Adams argued that the Townshend Acts were unconstitutional because the colony of Massachusetts was not represented in Parliament. Adams said that Parliaments status as the supreme legislative body of the British Empire did not allow it to violate British Constitution and natural gifts of the colonies. Adams wrote all of his opinions and made it clear that he was not favoring colonial representation in Parliament because American colonies were “separated by an ocean of a thousand of leagues” from Great Britain, instead Adams argued in favor of the arrangement before where the colonies were taxed only by their own provincial assemblies in which they were already represented. After Samuel wrote the letter there were consequences. Lord Hillsborough , secretary of state for the colonies, ordered the Massachusetts General Court to take it back. The people voted against revoking it, in response to the General Court’s defiance, Governor Francis Bernard solved the assembly. This led to an outbreak of violence from colonists. The colonists attacked the custom officials, making it impossible for them to perform their duties.


John wingspaninson’s letter.

The colonists reacted in many ways to the Townshend Acts. John wingspaninson wrote a letter and on the letter he set forth the argument that although the parliament could pass regulatory economic measures that provided incidental law, it had no right to tax the colonists. “Here then, my dear countrymen, rouse yourselves, and behold the ruin hanging over your heads. If you ONCE admit, that Great Britain may lay duties upon her exportations to us, for the purpose of levying money on us only … the tragedy of American liberty is finished,” stated wingspaninson in his letter. Not only did John wingspaninson write a letter so did Samuel Adams. The letter was called The Massachusetts Circular Letter, it was a statement written by Samuel Adams and passed by the Massachusetts House of Representatives in February 1768. In the letter Adams argued that the Townshend Acts were unconstitutional because the colony of Massachusetts was not represented in Parliament. . They also started a saying “NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION.” This saying meant that they taxed the colonists without asking their permission, this saying was spread through all the colonies and the colonists would scream it everywhere.



So this was basically what the Townshend Acts were and how the colonists reacted to it. The colonists organized boycotts, wrote letters, started violence, and did many other things. The Townshend Acts were not the worst things that the happened under British rule but colonists still rebelled against it. For more information that I didn’t cover I suggest you to go on this website http://www.ushistory.org/us/9d.asp.