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Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 was issued by the British Board of Trade (under King George lll).The act was to establish governments for their new territories won after the war, to have peace between colonists and Indians tribes. This act made the colonists angry which encouraged the anti-British attitude which came to the American Revolutionary War. -
The Sugar Act
The Sugar Act passed by the Parilament of Great Britian on April 5, 1764, it was made to raise revenue from the American colonisits in 13 colonies. It set a tax on Sugar and molasses brung back to the colonies. The colonisits were undergoing a time of financial diffculties which led to them violation the law by smuggling. -
The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was a tax imposed by the British government on the American Colonies. The British tax payers already paid a stamp act, but the Stamp Act imposed on the colonial people. The goal was to raise money needed for the military defenses for the Colonies. -
The Declaratory Act
It was issued by the British Parliment making its authority know by making laws binding the colonisits "in all cases whatsoever" including the right to tax. It was a reaction of the British Parilement for the fail of The Stamp Act.When The Declaratory Act was approved it now declared The Stamp Act void. -
The Townshend Revenue Act
A series of four acts were passed by the British Parliament in a attempt to declare strained authority over the colonies through suspension of uncontrollable representative assembly. The British Colonists named the acts after Charles Townshend. It was for granting certain duties in British colonies and plantation in America. -
Boston Non-Importation Agreement
These set of agreements were initiated by The Stamp Act Congress which boycotted all the British goods until The Stamp Act was void. It was later successfull and repealed by Parliament. Colonial rebellion to the British took in many forms. The most effective was the general Non-imortar ion agreements. It reached its ultimate effect in response to the Townshend Revenue Act. -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a pre-Revolutionary incident growing out of anger against the British troops sent to Boston to maintain order and enforce the Townshend Acts. The troops were harassed my gangs and finally fired on a rioting crowd and killed five men. The British Captain was trialed for his crimes as also the troops. The impact of the Massacre worsened, even when they did move the troops out of Boston. -
The Tea Act
American colonists could buy no tea unless it came from that company. Well, the East Indian Company wasn't doing so well, and the British wanted to give it some more business. The Tea Act lowered the price on this East India tea so much that it was way below tea from other suppliers. But the American colonists saw this law as yet another means of "taxation without representation" because it mean they couldn't buy tea from anyone else without spendino more money. They replied by refusing to load -
The Gaspee Affair
The HMS Gaspee, a British customs ship, ran aground in Rhode Island and a Sons of Liberty group attacked and set fire to the ship. The British Government threatened to send the American perpetrators for trial in England, but no arrests were made. However their threat to send Americans to trial in England sparked alarmed protests in the colonies who were informed of the affair via the Committees of Correspondence. The establishment of the permanent Comm -
Battle Of Bunker Hill
The Battle of Bunker Hill was a military conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in North America during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). The year and date that the Battle of Bunker Hill took place on June 17, 1775. The battlefield in which the British and American Forces fought during the Battle of Bunker Hill was located in Charlestown, Massachusetts.