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Navigation Acts
The Navigation Acts directed the trade between England and the colonies. The Navigation Acts prevented the colonies from sending certain products to anywhere outside the area that made up England's empire. The colonists got mad at this act because they couldn't use cheaper ships for trading. They also wanted to sell their manufactured goods where they could get higher prices. -
Proclamation of 1763
The purpose of making the Proclamation of 1763 was to prevent fighting. This angered colonists who owned shares in land companies and investors who had already bought land west of the Appalachain mountains. -
Sugar Act
This act lowerd the tax on imported molasses and was also made to prevent smuggling. This act angered the colonists because they believed these British actions violated their rights as English citizens. -
Stamp Act
This act placed a tax on almost all printed materials. Just to make sure people were paying tax they would recieve a stamp after the tax was paid. Colonists got very angry at this, they were boycotting and refusing to buy any British goods. A year later the Stamp Act was repealed. -
Declaratory Act
The purpose of the Declaratory Act was that the colonists needed to know that Parliament had the right to tax and make decisions for the British colonies "in all cases". There was no immediate reaction to this act. The colonists all had mixed feelings. Some felt that it meant more taxes were coming while others were unsure what to expect. Some say that this act helped build up to the Revoluntary War. -
Townshend Acts
The purpose of this act was to tax imported goods such as glass, tea, and paper with the tax being paid at the port of the entry. Colonists got mad because they believed that only their representatives had the right to tax them. The colonists boycotted again to have people wear homade fabrics and produce and use thier own goods instead of purchasing British goods. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act allowed companies to have control of trade for tea in America and to sell tea directly to shopkeepers and bypass colonial merchants who distributed the tea. Colonists boycotted again at this act. Colonists wanted to stop the East India companies. The Daughters of Liberty issued a pamphlet declaring that rather than part with freedom. -
Coercive Acts
This act was intended to punish the poeple of Massachusetts for their resistance to British Law and for the Boston Tea Party. Colonists were angry because they thought the Coercive Acts violated their rights. They didn't want to loose contol of the colonies. -
Quebec Act
This act was made to set up a government for Quebec. It gae Quebec the land wst if the Appalchain Mountains and north of the Ohio River. COlonists were angry at this act becuse it ignored all colonial claims to the area. The colonists expressed their feelings in their name for the new set of laws, the Intolerable Acts.
