Understanding colonial unrest

Understanding Colonial Unrest

  • Proclomation of 1763

    Proclomation of 1763
    Colonist were prohibited from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains
  • Sugar Act

    Revised duties on sugar, tea, coffee, wine; expanded jurisdiction of some courts.
  • Currency Act

    The act prohibited the issue of any new bills and reissues of existing currency.
  • The Stamp Act

    The Stamp Act
    Required colonist to buy a stamp for every peice of paper they used .
  • The Quartering Act

    British troops must be given housing on demand from colonists.
  • Writs of Assistance

    A written order issued by a court instructing law inforcement to perform a certain task.
  • Townshend Acts

    Includes duties on new items including tea, glass and other goods available in the Western Hemisphere
  • Boston Maccacre

    It was the fight between soldiers and colonist in Boston.
  • Tea Acts

    East India Tea Company granted sole right to sell tea directly to Americans; some duties on tea reduced.
  • Intolerable Act

    Make intolerable laws that were harsh and unexceptable.
  • Boston Tea Party

    Patriots threw 342 chests of tea overboard from three british ships in protest of taxes on tea.