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Currency Act
-Several Acts which regulated the issuing of money by the American colonist.
-Is the name of several acts of Parliament that regulated paper money issued by the colonies of America. -
Sugar Act
-This British law charged duties on sugar imported by the colonies. Several other products were also taxed.
-So called Sugar Act, was a law that attempted to curb the smuggling of sugar and molasses in the colonies by reducing the previous tax rate and enforcing the collection of duties -
Stamp Act
-This British law required certain printed materials including newspapers in America be on paper produced in Britain and stamped with a revenue stamp.
-Parliament had imposed taxes through the use of embossed revenue stamps, also known as impressed duty stamps, in Britain since 1694. -
Quartering Act
-This act forced the colonist to provide food and shelter for British soldiers when needed.
-Required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies. If the barracks were too small to house all the soldiers, then localities were to accommodate the soldiers in local inns, livery stables, ale houses, victualing houses, and the houses of sellers of wine. -
Townshed Act
-A series of acts passed By Brittan beginning in 1767 that taxed the colonies.
-The Townsend Acts were actually a series of taxes and laws imposed upon the colonists. The first, the Townsend Revenue Act, placed a tax on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, and tea. Other bills included in the Townsend Acts contributed to the colonists' angry reaction. -
The Boston Massacre
-An angry mob of colonist confronts British soldiers in Boston. Five colonists are killed.
-The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British, was a confrontation on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers shot and killed five people while under harassment by locals. -
The Tea Act
-This act basically gave the British East India Company a monopoly on tea trade in the Americas.
-The colonists had never accepted the constitutionality of the duty on tea, and the Tea Act rekindled their opposition to it. Their resistance culminated in the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773, in which colonists boarded East India Company ships and dumped their loads of tea overboard. -
The Boston Tea Party
- In response to the Tea Act patriots dressed as American Indians dump British tea into Boston Harbor. -The Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773
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Intolerable Act
- A series of laws also called the Coercive Acts passed by Brittan in response to the Boston Tea Party. -The Acts. The Boston Port Act was the first of the laws passed in 1774 in response to the Boston Tea Party. It closed the port of Boston until the colonists paid for the destroyed tea and until the king was satisfied that order had been restored.
