Discontent Grows

By asheva
  • Proclamation of 1763

    A British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide
  • The sugar act

    The Sugar Act was a strongly enforced tax on sugar, molasses, and other products imported into the American colonies from non-British Caribbean sources.
  • Currency Act

    The Currency Act prohibited the printing and issuance of paper money by Colonial legislatures.
  • Stamp Act

    The Stamp Act required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards.
  • The Quartering Act of 1765

    The Quartering Act stated that Great Britain would house its soldiers in American barracks and public houses.
  • Declaratory Act

    The Declaratory act was an act for the better securing the dependency of his majesty's dominions in America upon the crown and parliament of Great Britain
  • Townshend Act

    The Townshend Acts, which initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea.
  • Boston Massacre

    The Boston Massacre was when British sentries guarding the Boston Customs House shot into a crowd of civilians, killing three men and injuring eight, two of them mortally.
  • Quebec Act

    The Quebec Act granted emancipation for the Catholic, French-speaking settlers of Quebec.
  • Boston Tea Party

    60 American colonists threw 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to (essentially) annoy the British after a tax on tea
  • Intolerable (coercive) Acts

    The Coercive Acts were a series of laws that restricted trade and increased British control in Boston and the rest of Massachusetts.
  • The Quartering Act of 1774

    The Quartering Act of 1774 allowed British troops to be housed in private homes and facilities.