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Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 was issued by King George II and forbade colonies from settling land west of the Appalachian mountain. Another reason he created it was to avoid war with the Natives. The colonists were angered by the Proclamation because they felt it was done to keep them under the strict control of England. -
Currency Act
The currency act was passed because colonists were currently running low on bills. The British banned printing colonial money in order to alleviate British creditors' fears of being payed in the depreciated currency of the colonists.. The colonists protested against this act. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act, put into place by the British government, was enacted on April 5, 1764. The purpose of the act was to tax the importation of molasses from the West Indies, similar to the previous act, but now it was actually going to be enforced by the British Navy. The American colonists protested the act, claiming that the British West Indies alone could not produce enough molasses to meet the colonies' needs. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was a tax put on the American colonies by the British in 1765. It said they had to pay a tax on all different sorts of printed materials such as newspapers, magazines and legal documents. It was called the Stamp Act because the colonies were supposed to buy paper from Britain that had an official stamp on it showing they had to pay the tax. The colonies reacted in protest. They refused to pay the tax. They also boycotted against British products and goods. -
Quartering Act
The quartering act was passed by the parliament in 1765 and it meant that the colonists has to house and feed British soldiers. If the colonists could not accommodate the soldiers, the soldiers were sent somewhere else to a public facility. The colonists grew tired of this act because these soldiers were coming into their house eating their food and taking lots of their families belongings or resources, at one point they wanted to protest against it. -
Declaratory Act
Parliament wanted to control the colonists without angering them with a new set of taxes.The act declared Parliament's right to legislate for the colonies for whatever reason.The purpose of the act was to claim Parliament's control over all colonial incidents. The colonists were not bothered by the act -
Townshends Acts
The Townshend Acts were a series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies in 1767. They placed new taxes and took away lots of freedom from the colonists including the following: New taxes on imports of paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea. The colonists responded by boycotting British goods. -
Boston Massacre
The colonists started to call the British soldiers names like "lobsters", and "redcoats". The soldiers became angry and started destroying colonists property. The colonists became even more angry and started forming crowds, throwing rocks at the soldiers. British soldiers fired into the crowd killing colonists. More fights broke out in Boston. The colonists became angry and wanted to be free from British rule. It led colonists to fight for independence. -
Boston Tea Party
Boston was boycotting the tea in protest of the Tea Act and would not let the ships bring the tea ashore. Finally, on the night of December 16, 1773, colonials disguised as Indians boarded the ships and threw the tea overboard. They did so because they were afraid that Governor Hutchinson would secretly unload the tea because he owned a share in the cargo. The British response to the Boston Tea Party was to impose severe policies on the Massachusetts colony. -
Intolerable Acts
A series of laws set up by Parliament to punish Massachusetts for its protests against the British. The colonists organized boycotts and menores against the Intolerable Acts. -
Boston Port Bill
the Boston Harbor was shut down of any business unless they paid back the price of the tea they wasted, they were given a very short period of time so it was unrealistic that they could pay it back. This killed the Massachusetts economy. They turned against British rule and a lot of the colonists were seen as resistant. They still continued to boycott English goods.
