Carly Crouch Acts Timeline

Navigation acts

Oct 1, 1651

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

Oct 7, 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

Apr 5, 1764

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

Mar 22, 1765

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

Mar 18, 1766

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

Jun 26, 1767

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

Mar 10, 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

Mar 1, 1774

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

Quebec act

Oct 7, 1774

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.