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Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 was created to reserve the western territory of the United States for the use of Native Americans. This angered the colonists, because they no longer felt like they had the right to move westward and expand their colonies. -
The Sugar Act
The Sugar Act bans the importation of rum. It also creates taxes on goods such as wines, coffee, and other luxury items. The colonists begin to protest, and the statement "No taxation without representation," becomes common. Merchants in the colonies begin to fear that businesses will be ruined. -
The Currency Act
The Currency Act prevents paper bills of currency to be sent or made in the colonies, and makes it illegal as well. The colonists are angered by this act because of the financial burden it places on them. -
The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was created to place revenue stamps on newspapers, broadsides, liscenses, leases, pamphlets and other official documentations in the coloniess. This act is what strikes extreme hostility towards the British from the colonies. The colonists even create groups like the "Sons of Liberty" and "The Stamp Act Congress" as a result of the Stamp Act, in order to gain independence. -
The Quartering Act
The Quartering Act required the colonists to give British soldiers barracks and provide them with shelter. This angers the colonists because they are having to give the British a place to stay in their newly created colonies. -
The Delcaratory Act
The Declaratory Act is the act that enables the British to pass any law that they please onto the colonists. The colonists are very angered by this act, since the Stamp Act is repealed. -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was when a group of British soliders shot a group of males because they were apparently taunting them. This shooting sparks extreme anger in the colonies, and the groups of soliders that shot the boys are tried for manslaughter. -
The Townshend Act
The Townshend Act was created to force colonists to pay tax on the importation of goods like tea, glass, oil, lead, paper, and paint. In order to protest this act, colonists created their own agreement to no longer import goods to the British. -
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was an event where the Sons of Liberty dressed up as indians and dumped gallons of tea into the Boston Harbour to protest the Tea Act. The Tea Act placed a tax on tea to try and save the East Indian Company from debt. The tea being dumped into the harbour shut down the ports. -
The Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were created as a result of the Boston Tea Party, and banned colonists from meeting together in public places unless it was approved of by the British. It also stated that if any British were convicted of capital crime, the trial would be held in England or a different colony. In response to this, the colonists create their First Continental Congress, which later creates the Suffolk Resolves. -
The Quartering Act
The Quartering Act requires the colonists to house British soldiers and feed them in their homes. The colonists are extremely angered over this act. This act makes a British soldier the head of every household, and it is also inappropriate for some families, such as those with daughters. -
The Quebec Act
The Quebec Act gives gives people on Quebec land (extends towards Ohio River) garunteed rights and freedoms that the colonists do not have. The British do this to ally with the French Canadians. This angers colonists because of the fact that they don't have rights that people who don't even belong to Britain do.