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This was when the English created laws that regulated trade between them and us. It then became harder for us to trade with other countries.
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The Proclamation of 1763 stated a law forbidding English colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains. This made us angry because it gave the Natives more control over the land.
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The law that placed new duties on legal documents, and taxed newspapers, almanacs, playing cards, and dice. This act angered us because we were being taxed for things we already pay for.
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We had no right to elect representitives for Parliament. So, we began to rebel saying that Parliament had no right to tax us, colonists.
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When the king wanted to show colonists he had power. Parliament had the right to pass laws for the colonies in "all caes whatsoever". The king did his job. It put us all under a lot more stress.
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This act stated that goods such as glass, paper, paint, lead, and tea would be taxed. More things taxed just made it harder to start our lives in the Americas.
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This was when there was a conflict and five colonists were killed by British troops. There was a mob and many others were injured.
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There was a law that let the British East India Company bypass tea merchants and sell directly to colonists. We rebelled. What we did was we threw tea into the harbor.
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This was a series of laws passed to punish us for the tea party. However, we just kept protesting.
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This was a peace petition sent to King George by colonial delegates after the battles of Lexington and Concord. We did this because we just wanted peace by now.
