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Proclamation of 1763
Worried of the cost of defending the colonies, King George III prohibited all settlement west of the Appalachian mountains without the guarantees of security from local Native American nations. The intervention in colonial affairs offended the thirteen colonies' claim to the complete right to govern lands to their west. -
Sugar Act 1764
The first attempt to financ the defence of the colonies by the British Government. In order to block smuggling and to encourage the production of British rum, taxes on molasses were dropped; a levy was placed on foreign Madeira wine and colonial exports of iron, lumber and other goods had to pass first through Britain and British customs. The Act established a Vice-Admiralty Court in Halifax, Nova Scotia to hear smuggling cases without jury and with the presumption of guilt. These measures led -
the stamp act
In 1765 the Brittish imposed an Act called the Stamp Act taxing all the paper including letters, newspapers and playing cardes. -
Quartering Act
The colonist would have to house and feed all the Brittish troops. -
Virginian Resolution
The Virginian assembly refused to comply with the Stamp Act. -
Sons of liberty
Sons Of Liberty They were an underground organization formed to go against the Stamp Act. And they used some violence also some intimidation to force the Brittish to back down from importing British goods. One of the sons were Samule Adams -
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Stamp Act Congress
Representatives from the nine of all thirteen colonies declare one of the act's called Stamp Act unconstitutional as it was a tax levied without their consent. -
Declaratory Act
Parliament now finalises the repeal of the Stamp Act, but declares that it has the right to tax all the colonies of America. The colonist thought that the Stamp Act was a bad idea. -
Townshend Revenue Act (Townshend Duties)
Duties on tea, glass, lead, paper and paint to help pay for the administration and protection of the colonies, named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer. John Dickinson publishes Letter from a Philadelphian Farmer in protest. Colonial assemblies condemn taxation without representation. -
British troops arrive in Boston
They respond to protest agenst all acts. -
Boston Massacre
Angered by the presence of troops and Britain's colonial policy, a crowd began harassing the British soldiers guarding the customs house; a soldier was hit with a snowball and fell down starting the boston massacre as he discharged his musket getting all the other troops to fire at the rioters, Shooting a volley into the crowd which kills five civilians. -
Intolerable
the english parliment inposed tax on the colonist and one was the boston port act witch shut down the port till massatuces payed the tax thies acts were set up because of the reblling in massatuces other acts were the Massachuses act, the Quaring act and removel of the brittish officers. -
Burning of the Gaspee
A costums schooner Gaspee ran aground near Providence, Rhode Island and was burnt by locals who were angered by the enforcement of trade legislation -
Tea Act
The Tea Act was Pasted to charge on any tea thet was bought or imported from Brittan. THe British East India Company had a Monopoly over the American tea trade. -
Publication of Thomas Hutchinson letters
In these letters, Hutchinson, the Massachusetts governor, advocated a 'great restraint of natural liberty', convincing many colonists of a planned British clamp-down on their freedoms. -
Boston tea party
Oppiston groups mobleiesd aganest the plane of parliment giving East india Company for the trade of tea in America forcing tea ships to turn back at New York and Phillidelfea. In Boston, Governor Huttchinson orderded no ship could leave the harbor. The Boston Tea Party boarded the ship and throw 342 containers into the harbbor
