American History

  • Proclaimation of 1763

    Proclaimation of 1763

    The Proclamation of 1763 was a boundary created by Britain to keep the Americans from going across the Appalachian mountains and causing trouble with France.
  • Currency Act

    Currency Act

    The Currency Act was when the legislatures were forbidden from copying and printing money, as a result, they would be fined.
  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act

    The sugar act was to put taxes on sugar, molasses, and more that were being imported and traded from the Caribbean.
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    The stamp act was to put tax on all paper, documents, warrants so that Great Britain could pay for the French and Indian War.
  • Quarting act of 1765

    Quarting act of 1765

    The Quartering Act of 1765 Colonists had to provide a home/shelter in their houses for the British soldiers.
  • Declaratory act

    Declaratory act

    The Declaratory Act was passed by the parliament in Great Britain to make laws that could bring the colonies together, this was also passed when the stamp act was repealed.
  • Townshend Act

    Townshend Act

    The Townshend Act was to pay for expenses and to do this they put taxes on glass, paper, lead, paint, and tea. These were some of the items that were imported/traded.
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    The Boston Massacre was a brawl in which a few British soldiers were confronted and they ended up shooting and killing many colonists who were in the brawl.
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party was a protest by American colonists who threw 342 barrels of tea into the Boston Harbor to rebel against the tax on tea.
  • Intolerable acts

    Intolerable acts

    The intolerable acts also known as the Coercive acts, an accumulation of laws passed by parliament as a reaction of the Boston tea Party.
  • Quartering act of 1774

    Quartering act of 1774

    This Quartering Act was when British soldiers were able to live in the colonists houses and the colonists couldn't kick them out.
  • Quebec Act

    Quebec Act

    The Quebec Act was passed to give Catholics and French colonists their religious freedom.