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Salutary Neglect
This is the plan the colonists for most of the colonial era, beginning around the 1620's when the colonists arrived. It allowed American colonists to do as they wished. -
Navigation Act
Act passed requiring all goods shipped between England and the colonies had to be carried on ships built in England or the colonies. -
Navigational Act
The act declared that specific colonial products - tobacco, cotton, indigo, and sugar- could only beshipped to Britain. -
The Woolen Act
Opened Britian's wool industry by limiting wool production in Ireland and forbidding the export of wool from the American colonies. -
The Hat Act
This controlled the hat production. It limited the number of workers hatmakers could employ and also put limits on the manufacture, sale, and exploration of American made hats. -
Molasses Act
This placed a heavy tax on the colonists' importation of sugar and molasses from the Spanish and French West Indies. -
The Iron Act
This encouraged iron production in the colonies and provided for duty-free importation of bar or pig iron into any English port. -
The French and Indian War
Faught from 1754-1763 and brought areas ofCanada under Britain. This also allowed Britain to further expand their territory in North America. -
The Albany Plan
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Sugar Act
Britain taxed foregin molasses from illeagal trade from the Spanish and West Indies. This made the English molasses cheaper and wiped out the trade profits. -
New Taxes
From 1764-1767 Britains established more taxes to shift part of the burden of the war debt. -
Stamp Act
This required stamps be placed on articles and documents. This was also a direct tax to the British and this effected colonists everywere. -
Boycotting and Protesting
They started sometime after the Stamp Act was passed. Colonists refused to buy British goods. The British merchants pressured Parliment to repeal the Stamp Act. -
Boston Massacre
The first clash between colonists and the British troops in Boston. There were five men killed on that night. -
Boston Tea Party
A group of colonists dressed as Mowhawk Indiansand borded British ships. The colonists heaved 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. -
Coercive/ Intollerable Acts
This was the way the British punished the colonists for the Boston Tea Party. They were made up of many different acts such as the Boston Port Act on March 30th, The Massachusetts Government Act on May 20th, The Administration of Justice Act on May 20th, and The Quatering Act. -
Lexington and Concord
Messengers like Paul Revere rode around to warn all of the colonies that the British were coming and get their militia ready to fight.