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The Currency Act
prohibits the colonists from issuing any legal tender paper money. This act threatens to destabilize the entire colonial economy of both the industrial North and agricultural South, thus uniting the colonists against it. -
protest to revolution
In the years leading to the American Revolution, colonists gathered at the Meeting House to challenge British rule. -
proclamation
The end of the French and Indian War in 1763 was a cause for great celebration in the colonies, for it removed several ominous barriers and opened up a host of new opportunities for the colonists. -
Sugar Act
- The Sugar Act is passed by the English Parliament to offset the war debt brought on by the French and Indian War and to help pay for the expenses of running the colonies and newly acquired territories.
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The English Parliament
The English Parliament passes a measure to reorganize the American customs system to better enforce British trade laws, which have often been ignored in the past. -
Quartering Act
Requires colonists to house British troops and supply them with food. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed. -
Boston Massacre
Shots fired by British soldiers in the streets of Boston in 1770 would spark the American Revolution. The minute men (soldiers) new that attacking britian would start war. -
Boston tea Pary
The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies. -
Intolerable Acts
The government spent immense sums of money on troops and equipment in an attempt to subjugate Massachusetts. British merchants had lost huge sums of money on looted, spoiled, and destroyed goods shipped to the colonies. And you either join the colonies or die.
