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Proclamation
The Proclamation of 1763 is signed forbidding settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. This area is to be set aside and governed as Indian territory. The colonists were still continue to move to the West of Appalachians. They feel being unfair and against this law,. -
The Currency Act passes Parliament
The Currency Act passes Parliament, prohibiting the colonies from issuing legal tender paper money. This Act extended the 1751 Act to all of the British colonies of North America. British legislation required that all legal or official documents used in the colonies, such as wills, deeds and contracts, had to be written on special, stamped British paper. The colonists continued resentment and refusal to pay. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act, known in England as the American Revenue Act. It increased duties on items ranging from sugar to coffee to textiles. Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses. Colonists assemblies protest taxation for revenue. -
Stamp Act
Stamp taxes were levied on documents, paper goods, and similar items. The tax was collected at purchase and a tax stamp affixed to the item showing that it had been paid. Colonists complaints against the act " No taxation without representation." Most Americans called for a boycott of British goods. Son of Liberty was one of the most famous organised that against this act, found by Samuel Adams. After months of protest, Parliament voted to repeal the Stamp Act in March 1766. -
Quartering Act
The act stated that troops could only be quartered in barracks and if there wasn't enough space in barracks then they were to be quartered in public houses and inns.Colonists' reactions: protest in colonial legislatures, and bitter feelings between colonists and "redcoats". Led to "Boston Massacre" in March of 1770. -
Repeal of Stamp Act (Declaration Act)
The Stamp Act is repealed. However, the Declaratory Act is passed which gives the British government the power to legislate any laws of the colonies without restriction.The colonist vocalize their opposition to the impending enactment. -
Townshend Acts
Townshend Acts pass parliament introducing a number of external taxes including duties on items like paper, glass, and tea. Additional infrastructure is set up to ensure enforcement in America. The colonists feel very angry with this act. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Boston Massacre occurs killing five colonists and injuring six. Samuel Adam and other colonial led against Boston Massacre. This is used as a propaganda piece against the British military. The colonists used this event to their advantage. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act goes into effect, retaining the import tax on tea and giving the East India Company the ability to undersell colonial merchants. The colonists had never accepted the constitutionality of the duty on tea, and the Tea Act rekindled their opposition to it. They all agree to do something together to against this act. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party occurs. After months of growing consternation with the Tea Act, a group of Boston activists dressed as Mohawk Indians and boarded tea ships anchored in Boston Harbor in order to dump 342 casks of tea into the water. The colonists see as great defense of of the colonists liberties, but other people are are nervous and unsure waiting, to see what will happens (British react). -
Intolerable Acts
The Coercive Acts, known in America as the Intolerable Acts, were passed by the British Parliament in 1774 as punishment for the destruction wrought during the Boston Tea Party, a violent reaction to the British tea tax of 1773. There was a series of events that led up to this moment. By 1774, the relationship between Great Britain and the American colonies had become extremely tense. The leader of colonies meet to drew up the Declaration.
