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Proclamation of 1763
The purpose of the proclamation was to organize Britains new American empire and to settle relations with the Native Americans with trade, settlement, and land purchases. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act was made because Britain needed money. They needed more money because of the recent French and Indian war. Britain started taxing the colonist for molasses and sugar. -
Currency Act
The Currency Act is actually the name of several acts, but the main idea was to protect british merchants from being paid in colonial money or currency. -
Quartering Act
This act was to pay for soldiers to stay in the colonies. The colonists did not want to pay for soldiers to stay in the colonies. -
Writs of Assistance
The colonists were sneaking goods into the colonies. This document let soldiers search houses for smuggled goods without a search warrant. -
Stamp Act
This act states that all documents must be printed on stamped paper made in london. The paper must be paid in british money not colonial paper money. If anything is not printed on stamped paper it is illegal. -
Stamp Act taken away
The Stamp Act was taken away do to widespread protest across America. -
Declaratory Act
This act was created because the Stamp Act was taken away. The act states that the parliament has absolute power to make laws and changes to the colonies. -
Townshend Act
The Townshend acts were a series of laws passed beginning in 1767 -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre is an event where British Army killed 5 civilian men. They were stationed in Boston the capitol of Massachusetts Bay. -
Tax on tea kept
Britain kept the taxes going to show that they can still tax America and that they still had power. -
Townshend Acts repealed
The Townshend Acts came to an end due to protesting and boycotting. -
Tea Act
The objective of this act was to reduce the massive surplus of tea held by the financially troubled Britain and it's warehouses in London. -
Intolerable Acts
This act is a series of laws passed by the British Parliament. These laws triggerd outrage throughout the Thirteen Colonies. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a direct action by colonist in Boston. A group of colonists boarded ships with taxed tea on it. They dumped the tea into the Boston Harbor. -
Lexington and Concord
These events were battles of the American Revolutionary War. The British Army was looking for millitary supplies to destroy in Lexington and Concord. -
First Continental Congress
This event was a meeting about the Intolerable Acts. The congress was attended by 56 members.
