time line

  • navigation acts

    specific cammodites that could be shipped only within the english empire
  • proclamation of 1763

    issued by british goverment calling for a halt to westward expansion beyond the appalachins
  • stamp act

    required that revenue stamps be affixed to all printed documents in american colonies
  • sugar act

    comprised of delefates from nine colonies petitioned parliament to repeal the act
  • townshed act

    four measures enacted to raise revenue to pay the salaries of british governors and other officials in the colonies taxed a wide variety of impors including glass lead paints paper silk and tea