British taxation timeline By: Elayne Fernandez & Nina Costantino

By Elayne_fernandez

  • Bill of Rights

    Bill of Rights
    The Bill of Rights is the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution. It spells out Americans' rights in relation to their government. It guarantees civil rights and liberties to the individual—like freedom of speech, press, and religion.

  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763
    The Proclamation Line of 1763 was a British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide. The Proclamation Line prohibited Anglo-American colonists from settling on lands acquired from the French following the French and Indian War. (October 7 1753- 1783)

  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act
    British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch. (1764-1776)

  • The Currency Act

    The Currency Act
    The Currency Act or Paper Bills of Credit Act is one of several Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain that regulated paper money issued by the colonies of British America. The Acts sought to protect British merchants and creditors from being paid in depreciated colonial currency. (1764-1764)

  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act
    Aimed at raising revenue from the British colonies in America. (1765-1767)

  • Stamp act

    Stamp act
    he Stamp Act of 1765 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp. (October 7 1765- October 25, 1765)

  • Declaratory Act

    Declaratory Act
    The American Colonies Act 1766, commonly known as the Declaratory Act, was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act. (1766-1964)

  • Townshend Acts

    Townshend Acts
    The Townshend Acts were a series of measures, passed by the British Parliament in 1767, that taxed goods imported to the American colonies.(1767-1768)

  • Tea Act

    Tea Act
    The Tea Act granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies. (1773-1861)

  • Intolerable Act

    Intolerable Act
    The Intolerable Acts were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British Government. (1774-1775)