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Navigation Acts
Directed the trade between England and the colonies, colonial merchants couldn't use forgeign ships and certian products such as rice couldn't be shipped out of the English empire. The colonists didn't like that idea because they were losing a lot of money and having to spend more to ship their goods. Many colonists began smuggling and trading goods illegally with other nations. -
Proclamation of 1763
This set the Appalachian Mountains as a boundary that no colonist was allowed to move west of. It angerd the colonists because some had already bought land out there and they felt like Great Britain was ignoring their claims. -
Sugar Act
This lowered tax on all imported molases. This was made to make the colonists pay their taxes, Britain decided that if the colonists wouldnt pay the expensive taxes then they should lower them, but be more strict about them paying -
Stamp Act
This act placed taxes on almost all printed materials including, news paper, wills, and playing cards. The colonists fought against this saying that the parliment interfered with colonial affairs by taxing them directly and without their concent -
Declaratory Act
This stated that parliment had the right to taxa and make decisons for the British Colonies. The colonies became furious and refused to pay internal taxes. -
Townshend Acts
These are taxes on any imported goods such as tea, glass,and paper. This caused the women to form a group called The Daughters of Liberty and the men to form one called The Sons of Liberty, they formed these to fight against parliment as a groupa nad to come together and agree on the things that needed to change and that they wanted to boycott agaist. -
Tea act
It allowed companies a virtual monopoly or control for the tea trade in America. The merchants called for a new boycott colonists vowed to stop the east India's ships from unloadng goods. -
Coercive Acts / Intolerable Acts
These were harsh laws to punish the people of Massachesetts for their resistance to the British law. They closed the Boston Harbor until the colonists paid for the tea, but the colonies claimed that it violated their rights as english citizens. -
Quebec Act
The British set up a government for Quebec an dgave them the area west of the Appalachian Mountains and north of the Ohio River. This caused the colonists to get mad and they expressed their feeling through the name for the new laws, The Intolorable Acts
