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Proclamation of 1763
After the Seven Years War The British gained French territory in North America. The proclamation proclaimed that none of the settlers could settle west of the Appalachian Mountains, because it was set as an Indian reservation. The colonists had a desire for more great farmland so they went against the proclamation. They also went against the restrictions on trade and migration. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act was set to replace the Molasses Act of 1733. The act was set so that you could not import foreign rum. The act also effected molasses and put a tax on wines, silks, coffee, and other luxury items in hopes to reduce the temptation to smuggle things from Dutch and French West Indies for the distilleries in England.
The colonists were upset because they thought the law was unfair and they had no say, because they didn't have representation in Parliament. They smuggled it in. -
Currency Act
The Currency Act is the act that regulated paper money by the colonist to protect the British merchants from being paid a lower colonial currency. The colonists were very upset because they could not make anymore paper bills. So it made it harder to pay their dept because the British preferred sterling and not paper. So the colonists protested against the act. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act required newspapers, Marriage license, pamphlets, diplomas etc. to carry a tax stamp. The stamp act was originated because it was a way to collect revenue to keep the colonies going and spend the money to protect the colony. The colonist were outraged and it lead to boycotts, riots, and attacks on the tax collectors. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act required the colonists to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies. If the barracks were to small then they had to house them in Inns, and other places to live.
The colonists were upset because they were being taxed to pay for the barracks because they feared them and it was during peacetime. They refused to pay the tax. -
Sugar act repealed
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Stamp Act Repealed
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Townshed Acts
The Townshed Act was a few laws that were created to place new taxes and take freedoms away from the colonists with new taxes on imports or paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea.
The colonists were then mad again for another time because they did not have any representation in parliament. This also the cause of the famous Boston Tea Party. -
Quartering Act Repealed
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Townshed Acts Repealed
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Boston Massacre
At around nine at night the British troops shot at a group of men and boys that were throwing ice and snowballs at them. Two of the soldiers were found guilty and branded on the thumb, then discharged from the army. The colonists were already weary of them and thought the taxes were unfair and it rared them up to fight for independence. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act created a monopoly of tea sales in the American colonies. It gave the East Indian Company the right to directly ship its tea to North America. The colonists never agreed and their resistance to the tea was shown in the Boston Tea Party. -
Boston Tea Party
The 150 colonists dressed as Mohawk Indians and proceeded to dump out 342 chests of tea and 18,000 pounds of sterling out of three different ships. The Boston Tea Party was the reaction set off from the Tea Act. -
Intolerable Acts/ Coercive Act
These acts were the response the British had in accordance to the Boston Tea party. It stated that the Boston Harbor would be closed until the destroyed tea was paid for. The colonists wanted to respond to the British in a unified fashion so they formed the First Continental Congress. -
The Quebec Act
This act was to extend the boundaries of Quebec to the Ohio river. The Catholics and Indians were guaranteed the right to this region. This angered the colonists but something happened that they had feared, it showed Parliamentary supremacy. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia all of the 13 colonies are represented except Georgia. On September 17, they approved the Suffolk Resolves which was used to oppose the Intolerable Act. -
Declaratory Act
The Declaratory Act was passed so that the same tax and laws the Parliament placed on the colonist that it was the same in Britain as it was in America.
Some colonist were celebrating their victory because they felt they had a political victory to repeal the Stamp Act. Some of the other colonists caught the hint implied in the Act that they would have even more tax to pay, so they were outraged.