The Road to Revolution (1763-1773)

By 16mkolenkiewicz

  • Proclamation

    Proclamation
    The Proclamtion of 1763 established three new colonies. Three were down south towards Florida and one was up north in Quebec.

  • Currency Act

    Currency Act
    The Curency Act was when the Colonists started to lose their money, gold was short, and they did not feel like paper printing their own. The act prohibeted any new type of dollars to be made.

  • The Stamp

    The Stamp
    The Stamp Act was based on the sending of mail in the colonies. The more that is being sent the more pence it coasted.
    "For every skin or piece of vellum or parchment, or sheet or piece of paper, on which shall be engrossed, written, or printed, any declaration, plea, replication, rejoinder, demurrer or other pleading, or any copy thereof; in any court of law within the British colonies and plantations in America, a stamp duty of three pence"

  • Quartering Act 1765

    Quartering Act 1765
    The Quartering Act was for each colony and their troops. They had to pay for their needs: bed, food, water, ect.

  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act
    The Sugar Act was when Colonists were payed 6 pence for every gallon of imported foreign molasses. Later the tax went down to 3 pence per gallon. The colonists had to protest to get it lowered.

  • Declaratory Act

    Declaratory Act
    The Declaratory Act of 1766 was to secure the Colonists dependence towards the King and his royal thrown. Also it is the rights of the colonists. That they get a say in what happens.
    "And be it further declared"

  • Townshend Act

    Townshend Act
    This Act was for the colonists to get more money as they worked. They get paid the fair ammount of money, The more work they did the more money they were given from Brittan.
    "For every pound weight avoirdupois of tea, three pence."

  • The Stamp Act of Congress

    The Stamp Act of Congress
    This Act was the colonists against the British. What happened was the Colonists were infuriated by the Sugar and Stamp Acts that they decided to defend themselves. They made their own laws and protested the British ones.
    That His Majesty's liege subjects in these colonies, are entitled to all the inherent rights and liberties of his natural born subjects within the kingdom of Great-Britain.