U.S. History timeline #1

By amosann
  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act

    This Quartering Act allowed the royal governors rather than the colonies' legislatures to go and find homes and buildings to quarter or to house the British soldiers so which means this only further enraged the colonies by having what did appeared to be foreign soldiers.
  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act

    For the Sugar Act, it was goal was to raise revenue for Britain to pay the part of the cost standings army of North America. It started the controversy over Britain taxing colonies when they had no representatives in parliament of the American revolution and the war for independence.
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    Tax directly levied on colonists on required Stamp on commercial contracts, legal, documents, newspapers, pamphlets, playing, cards, or dice. Generate revenue for British garrisons and forts in colonies.
  • Declaratory Act

    Declaratory Act

    The Parliament did repealed to the Stamp Act and the Declaratory Act, which the British claimed that had right to tax the American colonists at all, the prospect of the revolution did become more pronounced.
  • Townshend  Act

    Townshend Act

    So that means having no representation in parliament colonises saw that some of the acts were abusing the power. When the colonists saw this they resised, Britain sent troops to the collect the taxes, which further heightened the tensions that led to the American Revolutionary War.
  • Tea Act

    Tea Act

    So the Tea Act started because it led directly to a protest known as the ¨Bosten tea party¨, (very well known). The colonists dumped 342 chests of East India company tea into the ocean.