Acts of Parliament Timeline

  • Mar 5, 1170

    Boston Massacre

  • Proclamation of 1763

  • Sugar Act

  • Stamp Act

    The Stamp Act took revenue from the American colonies by putting taxes on shipments that included imports, exports, documents, and newspapers.
  • Quartering Act

    The Quartering Act outlines the locations and conditions that helped British Soldiers find room and board in the American colonies.
    The colonists were not happy with having to house the soldiers.
  • Declaratory Act

    The Declaratory Act was used to reassert the Parliament's authority to make laws. These laws included the right to tax the colonists.
  • Townshend Act