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Sugar Act of 1763
The Sugar Act of 1763 was a revised version of an older tax on sugar and molasses, and taxed many important foriegn items like sugar, certain wines, coffee, and pimiento. It also restricted and taxed foreign trade for the colonies. The colonies were hurt ecponomically and didn't like being taxed when they weren't represented in the British Government. -
Proclamation of 1763
The proclamation of 1763 effectively closed off all of the lands to colonial expansionism that the British had gained in the Franch and Indian War. The colonists didn't think that the natives had a right to their lands, and they also believed that the British did this so it would be easier to rule over the Colonies. The colonists resented this decision. -
Currency Act of 1764
This act took control of the admitedly, disorganized and confusing, colonial currency system. All colonial money was now worthless and the colonies couldn't make their own currency. For obvious reasons, this infuriated the colonists. -
Stamp Act of 1765
Created a tax on ALL forms of papers in the colonies, supposed to pay for costs of the British armies in Appalachia. Actually was a small tax, but the colonists were angry because they felt all colonial taxes bfore this were to regulate commerce, but not to raise money. Virginia's government, the House of Burgesses resisted this act bitterly. -
Quartering Act of 1765
It forced the colonists to give food and drink to the British soldiers, and let soldiers be quartered in empty or commercial buildings. It did NOT let soldiers be quartered in private homes. -
Stamp Act Congress of 1765
It was a meeting of opposistion against the Stamp Act, but only 9 out of the 13 colonies were able to send represesntatives. It preceded and inspired the Declaration of Rights and Grievances, which protested the British taxing the colonists when the colonists had no say in the taxes. -
Declatory Act of 1766
The Declatory Act of 1766 gave the British parliment the absolute right to make laws concerning the colonies, literly whenenever they wanted to, this obviously infuriated the colonists as they STILL had no say in their taxation. It was passed to stop the thought that the colonists could force parliment to repeal laws, following the repeal of the Stamp Act. -
Townshend Act of 1767
The British taxed glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, and tea, whith the intent of raising 40,000 pounds every year for colonial administration. The colonists, big suprise, hated it because it was basically the Stamp Act except on other things. Many colonists boycotted English goods, and the now desperate English merchants made Parliment repeal the law .(U. S. A. , U. S. A,!)
