Carly Crouch Acts Timeline

  • Navigation acts

    Navigation acts

    purpose of act- Directed the trade bewteen england and the colonies. outcome- This prevented the colonists from sending certain products,such as sugar or tobacco outside the area that made up englands empire. The colonists first accepted the trade laws but then later the colonists came to resent british restrictions.
  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763

    Purpose- St the Appalachain mountains as the tempoary western boundary for the coloniies. outcome- angered thoes who owned shares in land companies.
  • Sugar acts

    Sugar acts

    Lowered the tax on important molasses also let officers seize goods from smugglers without going to court. angered because they felt violated their rights as english citizens.
  • stamp act

    stamp act

    This lawed placed a tax on most all pronted material. protested signed agreements against it
    started groups-sons of liberty daughter of liberty
    boycott good
  • Declaratory act

    Declaratory act

    started that parliament had the right to tax and make decisions for the british colonies. some thought that more taxes would be coming soon.
  • Townshend acts

    Townshend acts

    Only apply to imported good such as glass ,tea ,paper with tax being paid at the part of entry. thought only their repersentatives should have right to tax them
    boycotts+ created groups
  • Tea acts 1773

    Tea acts 1773

    allowed a company or sole control of the trade for tea in america. called for a new boycott
    daughter of liberty issued a pamphlet
    declaning that rather than part w/freedom part w/ tea
  • Coercive acts

    Coercive acts

    Made to punish the people of massachussetts for their resistence to british law violated rights as english citizens
    colonist angry
  • Quebec act

    Quebec act

    Set up a government for quebec in gave the area west of the appalachians + notrthr of the ohio river expressed their feelings in their name for the new laws-the intolerable acts.