Pre-Revolutionary War

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1 As a result of the Treaty of Paris of 1763, France lost all its possessions in the New World, including its islands in the Caribbean most of Spain's New World empire was transferred to France. Louisbourg was returned to the French in exchange for a British outpost in India that the French had taken during the war. the British gained Canada and became supreme in eastern North America. guaranteed that the American colonies would have French legal codes in place 2 A writ of assistance helped colonial merchants cut through the red tape of imperial trade regulations allowed the British to ransack a colonial merchant's house in search of illegal goods required prosecutors to present evidence of probable cause of suspicion of smuggling required that specified colonial products be landed in Britain before being shipped to other countries. raised taxes for colonial merchants 3 The chief reason for Parliament's repeal of the Stamp Act and the Townshend Duties was the conviction that the colonists were on the verge of revolution pleas of Burke and Pitt to conciliate with the colonists be recognizing their right to tax themselves harmful effects of colonial boycotts and nonimportation agreements on British business expectation that the colonial assemblies would voluntary vote for higher taxes fear that the tax rate in the colonies would be seen as an unfair burden 4 The Coercive Acts restructured the Massachusetts government closed Boston Harbor permitted certain murderers to be tried in England all of the above none of the above 5 In the Declaration of Independence, whom did the Americans indict for repeated injuries and usurpations? Parliament because of the oppressive legislation that it had passed over 10 years King George III because of the crown's apparent intention to establish despotism the King's ministers because they had refused to compromise and had turned the King and Parliament against the colonies Loyalists in the colonies British merchants because their drive for personal profits had caused them to ignore the greater good of empire