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Discontent Grows

  • Proclamation of 1763

    This restricted Anglo-American colonists from settling on French-owned land gained from the French and Indian War. The boundary was marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide.
  • Currency Act

    Giving control to Britain over colonial currency, and prohibited the issue of any new currency.
  • Sugar Act

    Added a strict tax on sugar. molasses, and other products imported into the colonies from non-British sources. Prohibited all foreign rum.
  • Stamp Act

    To help pay for war debts from The French and Indian War, Parliament passed this act which required all colonists to pay a tax, expressed by a stamp, on all documents, papers, playing cards, dice, etc
  • Quartering Act 1765

    Allowed British soldiers to board in the American colonies and called for colonists to house theses soldiers in barracks.
  • Declaratory Act

    British Parliament could now make laws binding the American Colonies in any case.
  • Townshend Act

    Enforced taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. Led to boycotting.
  • Boston Massacre

    British Soldiers guarding the Boston Customs House from riots, shot in the crowd, killing three immediately, and injuring eight, with two of them later succumbing to their injuries, after being verbally and physically harassed by the riot.
  • Boston Tea Party

    Disguised Sons of Liberty, dumped 92,000 pounds of tea into the Boston Harbor to protest the unfair taxes placed on the colonies.
  • Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)

    American Colonists were given 4 laws to follow as punishment for the Boston Tea Party, including the Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Impartial Admin of Justice Act, and the Quartering Act 1774.
  • Quartering Act 1774

    Being the most harsh of the two quartering acts, royal governors could now order British soldiers to live in American colonists' homes.
  • Quebec Act

    Gave emancipation to French-speaking Catholics, but gave the British more control over religion, land distribution, and colonial government.