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Proclamation of 1763
The proclamation of 1763 was a British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide.Wary of the cost of defending the colonies, George III prohibited all settlement west of the Appalachian mountains without guarantees of security from local Native American nations. The intervention in colonial affairs offended the thirteen colonies' claim to the exclusive right to govern lands to their west. -
Sugar act
The sugar was a british legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies and at providing increased revenues to fund enlarged British Empire responsibilities following the French and Indian War. -
Currency act
The Currency Act, passed in 1764 along with the Sugar Act, prohibited the printing and issuance of paper money by Colonial legislatures. -
Stamp act
The Stamp Act of 1765 was the first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British Parliament. The act, which imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies, came at a time when the British Empire was deep in debt from the Seven Years' War (1756-63) and looking to its North American colonies as a revenue source. -
Quartering Act 1765
Colonial assemblies required to pay for supplies to British garrisons. The New York assembly argued that it could not be forced to comply. -
Declaratory Act
Parliament could make laws binding the American colonies "in all cases whatsoever."
Parliament finalises the repeal of the Stamp Act, but declares that it has the right to tax colonies.
The ability of England to tax the colonies without giving them representation in Parliament was seen as disgraceful. -
Townshend Act
To help pay the expenses involved in governing the American colonies, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, which initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. -
Boston massacre
Angered by the presence of troops and Britain's colonial policy, a crowd began harassing a group of soldiers guarding the customs house; a soldier was knocked down by a rock and discharged his musket, sparking a volley into the crowd which kills five civilians. -
Boston tea party
Angered by the Tea Acts, American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians dump £9,000 of East India Company tea into the Boston harbour. -
Intolerable Acts
Four measures which stripped Massachusetts of self-government and judicial independence following the Boston Tea Party. The colonies responded with a general boycott of British goods. -
Quartering act of 1774
The Quartering Act of 1774 allowed British troops to be housed in private homes and facilities. -
Quebec act
The quebec act guaranteed the freedom of worship and restored French property rights and allowed French Catholics to obtain good jobs in the government.
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