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Navigation Acts
Stated that if colonists had goods to ship they could not use foreign ships, they also could not ship sugar or tobacoo out of the english empire.
So they could save money the colonists smuggled or traded their goods illeagaly -
Proclamation of 1763
This act put the Appalachain Mountains as the western boundary to the colonies.
This angred the colonists because they now knew that the british king ignored their claims to land past the Appalachain Mountains. This also made more conflict between the two, King vs colonists. -
Sugar Act
This act lowered the tax on important molasses.
This angred the colonists becuse they beleived this act violsted their english rights. -
Sramp Act
Put a tax on almost all printed materials. The outcome is the colonists disagreed with this act because it taxed them without their consent. -
Declaratory Act
This act states that parliment claimes sovereignty over the colonies in all cases.
Enacted on the same day that Parliment repealed the stamp act this was merely positioning so that England would not lose face to the colonies. -
Townshend Act
Law that only taxed important goods, like glass, tea, and paper, with the tax bing paid at port entry.
Colonists stopped getting glass and tea out of the other countries less and less and colonial women started making their own goods. -
Tea Act
Eas t India tea company granted sole right to sell tea directly to the americas.
Tea was a popular drink in the colonies. The colonies than did not allow the East Indians to unload their tea (cargo). -
Coercive Act (IntolerablebActs)
Closed bosten harbor, eliminates current government of Massachusetts, restricts many other government meetings, Parliment intended to block bosten.
The colonists disliked this because they had to host British troops in their homes, making the coloists angry because they thought it was against their english rights. -
Quebec Act
Set up a government in Quebec it also gave Quebec the area west of the Appalachain Mountains and North of the Ohio River. This provision told the colonists that they ignored their claim for land. The colonist expressed their feelings in their name for the new laws -- the Intolerable Act.
