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The Procolamation of 1763
The proclamation, closed off the frontier to colonial expansion. When the King and his council presented the proclamation as a measure to the Indians, who felt that the colonists would drive them from their lands as they expanded westward -
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The Road to Revolution
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Sugar Act of 1764
On April 5, 1764, Parliament passed a new version of the Sugar and Molasses Act (1733), which was about to expire. Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants were required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses and sugar. -
Currency Act of 1764
On September 1, 1764, Parliament passed the Currency Act, assuming control of the colonial currency system. The act prohibited the issue of any new bills and the reissue of existing currency. -
Stamp Act of 1765
The Stamp Act was passed on February 17,The Stamp Act was Parliament's first serious attempt to assert governmental authority over the colonies. The Stamp Act stated that most packages had to be shipped with a stamp. -
Quartering Act of 1765
The quartering act was declared and enacted saying that there should be no more bills ordered, than there are soldiers present to be quartered there and this service may be effectually provided for, the commander in chief in America -
Stamp Act Congress of 1765
The members of this Congress, sincerely devoted, with sentiments of affection and duty to His Majesty's Person and Government, attached to the present happy establishment of the Protestant succession, and with minds impressed by a sense of the present and misfortunes of the British colonies on this continent -
Declaratory Act of 1766
An Act for the better securing the dependency of his Majesty's dominions in America upon the crown and parliament of Great Britain. -
Townsend Act of 1767
Taxes on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, and tea were applied with the design of raising £40,000 a year for the administration of the colonies. The result was the resurrection of colonial hostilities created by the Stamp Act.
