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Proclamation of 1763
The English had no money, which meant they didn't have enough money for British law enforcement. This meant that they couldn't upset the Natives, so they made sure to be on their good side. The colonists became upset because it prevented them from settling past the Appalachian Crest. It also forced settlers that were already living in prohibited areas to move and relocate. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act replaced the Molasses Act of 1733 and taxed a foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies to give British sugar growers in the West Indies a monopoly on the colonial market. 50 letters were delivered to the Parliament in response to the Sugar Act. the Act was repealed in 1765 by the overwhelming anger of the colonists. -
The Currency Act
This was an Act passed by the British to control the colonial currency system. It was an attempt to prevent the colonies from forming their own type of currency. It prevented colonists from printing their own hard money, which left them with not enough money to pay their debts and bills. This negatively affected the American colony. -
Stamp Act
The Act was a tax on every piece of paper used by the colonists. Even dice were taxed. If the papers that the colonists were using didn't have an official stamp, they were taxed 10 sterling. If they tried to forfeit the stamp they would be executed. This led to the colonists having their bond with Britain practically gone. The colonies stated that the Stamp Act was an attempt to raise money for the British Government. -
Quartering Act
The Act forced the colonists to house the British soldiers in their living spaces.If their space was too small then they were required to pay for the solder's barracks. The colonists were against this act, specifically because they saw no need for such an amount of military when they weren't in a war. As well as the fact that they had to pay for the barracks of these soldiers when they weren't even protecting them from anything. -
Declaratory Act
It stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as it was in Great Britain. This act was the response from the British to having the Stamp Act repealed. The colonists relaxed the boycott but ignored the Declaratory Act. -
Townshend Act
The act was a series of taxes and laws set by the British for the colonies. They implemented new taxes and took away some freedoms of the colonists such as: taxes on imports of paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea. It also established an American Customs Board in Boston to collect taxes and gave British officials the right to search any colonists house without a warrant. Colonists protested this act by boycotting British goods and in result to the acts, the Boston Massacre came soon after. -
Boston Massacre
The colonists were ill at all the taxation that had been put a upon them. A dispute began between a small group of patriots and some British soldiers. The patriots started to throw snowballs and sticks at the soldiers and a gunshot rang out, which caused multiple soldiers to shoot. This resulted in the deaths of several colonists. -
"Committee of Correspondence"
Samuel Adams induced the Boston town meeting to select a "Committee of Correspondence" to state the rights of colonists. They feared judges would no longer be dependent on the legislature and no longer be accountable to it. So they opposed British design to pay the salaries of judges from custom revenues. This started the Massachusetts Bay Colony. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act was a British Law passed by Parliament that was designed to bail outage British East India Company and expand the company's monopoly on the tea trade of all the colonies. This act didn't even enforce any new taxes on the colonists, but it did lead into the Boston Tea Party. -
Boston Tea Party
This event was a direct protest by the colonists in Boston against the Tea Tax. Patriots dressed up as Mohawk Indians and raided three British ships in Boston harbor and dumped 342 containers of tea into the harbor. -
Quebec Act
Extended the boundaries of the province of Quebec south to the Ohio river. It reestablished French practice, trials without jury, no representative assembly, and gave Catholic church semi established status. -
First Contential Congress
At the suggestion of the House of Burgesses, colonial representatives met in Philadelphia. The total was 55 and Georgia failed to have any Delegates attend. It was created to protest the intorlerable acts.