Acts

Navigation Acts

Oct 1, 1651

Purpose: Directed trade between England and the colonies.
Outcome: Colonists began to smuggle.

Proclamation Act of 1763

Oct 7, 1763

Purpose: Prohibit colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains.
Outcome: More conflicts erupted because it angered the colonists. They ignored their land claims.

Sugar Act

Oct 5, 1764

Pupose:Lowered the tax on imported molasses.
Outcome: The colonists got angry and protested. They believed that these actions violated their rights as English citizens.

Stamp Act

Mar 22, 1765

Pupose: Taxed all pritnted material.
Outcome: Colonists boycotted and Sons of Liberty was formed to protest this act. It was later repealed.

Declaratory Act

Mar 18, 1766

Purpose: Stated that Parliment had the right to tax and make desicions for the British colonies.
Outcome: Colonists did not like that Parliament was in charge.

Townshend Act

Jun 26, 1767

Purpose: New taxes on tea, glass, paper, and other goods.
Outcome: Angered colonists and they boycotted again. Women formed the Daughters of Liberty.

Tea Act

May 10, 1773

Purpose: Allowed British East India to control trade for tea in America.
Outcome: There was a boycott on tea and the Boston Tea Party.

Coercieve Acts

Mar 1, 1774

Purpose: Punish the people of Massachusetts for resisting the British laws.
Outcome: Colonists expressed their feelings.

Quebec Act

Jun 22, 1774

Purpose: Set up a government for Quebec. It gave Quebec land west of the Appalachian mountains.
Outcome: Colonists could not get land they had bought.