Alex Baylor acts timeline

Navigation act

Oct 17, 1650

Made to ensure that only England benefited from trade with the colonies. Because of this, colonists began to smuggle since England started to raise prices on goods.

Proclamation of 1763

Oct 17, 1763

The British stopped western expansion to stop fighting. Colonist were outraged because they just fought a war for the West and the British ignored their claims.

Sugar act

Apr 5, 1764

Parliment lowered the tax on sugar because when the tax was high, nobody pay it.

Stamp act

Mar 22, 1765

A tax that all legal documents had to have a stamp. Colonist started to boycott British goods and signed non-importation acts.

Declaratory act

Mar 18, 1766

Stated that Parliament had the right to tax and make decisions for the British colonies.

Townshend acts

Jun 29, 1767

Taxs on glass, tea, paper, paint, and lead. The colonist formed more boycotts and the daughters of liberty.

Tea act

May 10, 1773

Allowed the Brithish East India Company a monopoly over tea trade. Instead of shipping to merchants, they sent tea strait to shopkeepers. Merchants called for a boycott that stopped ships from entering ports. This created the Boston Tea Party.

Coercive

Mar 30, 1774

The Coercive acts were ment to punish the people of massachusetts for resistance aganst British law. They closed British ports until Massachusetts payed for the ruined tea, and made they house British soilders. The coloniest ended up calling these the Intolerable acts.

Quedec Act

Jun 22, 1774

The act set up a government for Quebec, and gave them the area west of the Appalachians and land North of the Ohio river. The coloniest reactied by calling this an Intolerable act.