Discontent Grows

  • Proclamation of 1763

    Prohibited Anglo-American colonists from settling on lands acquired from the French following the French and Indian War.
  • Sugar Act

    The Sugar Act was to cut the duty on foreign molasses from 6 to 3 pence per gallon, retain a high duty on foreign refined sugar, and prohibited the importation of all foreign rum.
  • Currency Act

    It prohibited the printing and issuance of paper money by colonial legislatures
  • Stamp Act

    The British Parliament taxed the colonists on various items in order to pay for the destruction and recovery of the French and Indian War.
  • Quartering Act of 1765

    The Quartering Act outlines the locations and conditions in which soldiers are to find room and board in the American colonies.
  • Declaratory

    Parliament could make laws binding the American colonies.
  • Townshend Act

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

    British Sentries guarding the Boston Customs House shot into a crowd of civilians, killing three men and injuring eight, two of them mortally.
  • Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party was a protest against taxes when 60 American colonists threw 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor.
  • Intolerable Acts

    A series of law that restricted trade and increased British control in Boston and the rest of Massachusetts.
  • Quartering Act of 1774

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

    The Quebec Act allowed French Catholics to obtain good jobs in government.