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Navigation Acts
Purpose of the Navigation acts was that it directed trade between new england and the colonies. The outcome of the navigation acts was that the colonists at first accepted the trade laws, but later they declined the trading laws. -
Proclamation of 1763
The purpose of this act is to set the applachain mtns. as temperary boundry for the colonies, the outcome of this act was that it angered many colonists because they wanted to move on the other side of the mountains for more land beacuse land means more money. -
Sugar Act
The sugar act lowered tax on imported molasses, it also let officers seize goods from smugglers. The colonists believed that this violated their rights as english citizens -
Stamp Act
Placed a tax on almost all printed material, and all printed material had to have a stamp. The outcome of tis act is that it interfered with colonial affairs by taxing the colonies directly, the stamp act also taxed colonists without their consent. -
Declaratory Act
States that parliament had rights to tax and make decisions for british colonies. The result of this was that Parliament repealed the stamp act because England would not lose face for giving into the colonies. -
Townshend Act
Applied to imported goods with the tax being paid at the port of entry, the reaction of the colonists was that the colonists organized a boycott, and urged other colonists to make their own goods, rather that buy from the british. -
Tea Act
Allowed a company a virtual monopoly, or sole control of the trade for tea in america. Thie resulted as the colonists stopping the selling of tea and they oushed crates of tea into the botson harbor. -
Intolerable Acts
This act intended to punish people of massachusetts for their resistance to the british laws.nThe outcome of this act was many angered colonists, so the colonist formed the first continental congress. -
Quebec Act
The colonists set up a government, and gave quebec the area west of the Appalachain mts. and north of the ohio river. The reactions of this was that it exspressed feelings in their name for new laws. ( intolerable acts )
