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Acts that led to the "American Revolutionary War"
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The Molasses Act
Molasses Act was passes by the British Parliament. It phrohibited sugar, rum, and molasses imported from non-British West Indian islands to the North American colonies. The act would have damaged the economy of New England, but it was never enforced very seriously. It was repealed by the Sugar Act which made the colonist very mad. -
French & Indian War
The French & Indian War (The 7 Years War) had begun. -
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French and Indian War
The French and Indian War (The 7 years war) lasted for 9 years. It was a battle with the French/Indians and the British fighting against each other. -
Proclomation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 was an attempt to prevent the colonists from going west and passing the Appalachian Mountains. The British did this to prevent future problems between Native Americans and the colonists. This made the colonist mad because they wanted the benefits that would come with the western lands. Usually 1,000s ignored the imaginary boundary line. It was an attempt to prevent colonial tauntness with Native Americans by establishing the West boundaries to the 13 colonies. -
The Boston Port Act
The Boston Port Act was the first and easiest to cause of four acts that are made up of the Coercive Acts. Three other acts were a new Quartering Act, the Administration of Justice Act, and the Massachusetts Government Act. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act (known as the Molasses Act) was for the British to tax on sugar, wine, etc. The British did this because they wanted more money to secure the colonies. The Sugar Act made colonist very upset. If they only traded with Britain, they would not be able to sell their products more cheaply. Also they lost money if they bought they same amount of sugar, wine etc. -
The Currency Act
The act was a big suffer for money. Like the British would take away all of the gold and silver from the Americans or Colonists. Many of the colonies didn't feel like printing their own paper money back then. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies. For example, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, and playing cards. The act was established to raise money for the British soldiers in the seven years war. The Stamp Act showed people they had liberty. So it made many people inspired to dump all the tea in the Boston Harbor. The Stamp Act also contributed to the Declaration of Independence by showing people what liberty is. -
The Quarting Act of 1765
General Thomas Gage (who took affect on the act the most) commander of the British army, and other British officers who had fought in the French and Indian War, had found it hard to persuade colonist's assemblies to pay for quartering of troops on the march. The purpose of these laws was to take back hold of the colonies. Therefore, he asked Parliaments to do something. Most colonies had supplied food during the war, but passing the act was argued during peacetime. -
Stamp Act Congress
The Stamp Act Congress, or "First Congress of the American Colonies", was basically a meeting between October 7 and 25, 1765 in New York City, having of representatives from some of the British colonies in North America. It was the first gathering of elected representatives from several American colonies to plan a unified protest against new British taxes. Parliament had passed the Stamp Act, which required the use of usually paper for all business in the colonies. -
The Declatory Act
The Declaratory Act of 1766 was that it was hard for the Parliament's to repeal of the Stamp Act. It was England's first major retreat in the face of power to the colonial Americans. The Declaratory Act in March affirmed England's right "to bind the colonies...in all cases," whether it'll be the right to tax, enforce on all parliament laws, or crown privileges over its colonies in general. All were subjected to the British's indpendence. -
The Townhshend Act
The Townshend Acts are a series of acts and laws. These five laws were mentoned a lot during the act. The 5 laws/acts were the Revenue Act of 1767, the Indemnity Act, the Commissioners of Customs Act, the Vice Admiralty Court Act, and the New York Restraining Act. The purpose of the Townshend Acts were to raise revenue and to pay the governers and judges. -
The Boston Non-Importation Agreement
Sixty merchants signed the Boston Non-Importation Agreement in opposing to Parliament’s ongoing attempts to collect taxes on the American colonies. In a town meeting in Boston, merchants and traders agreed to boycott goods that were subjects to England's Townshend Revenue Act until the taxes were forced. Some critical supplies, such as salt, oil, and ducks, were isolated from the boycott. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre (Killing 5 men on March 5th, 1770). It was the culmination of civillian millitary tensions. It has started with boys and men throwing rocks, clubs, and oyster shells. Then the rebels get really mad. After, they would start shooting and kill the 5 men. Samuel Adams (John Adams cousin) exaggerated that it was a massacre but when it is only 5 people dying. -
The Tea Act
The Tea Act was for the British to gain control of the tea trade. It was attempt by the British to regain control of the tea trade in America and to rescue the British East India Company. After the Townshend Acts of 1767 many colonists boycotted the tea, and chose to smuggle it in from Dutch's tea company. This made the British mad when they still had 18 million pounds of unsold tea left. They also didn't know what to do with it. -
Massachusetts Goverment Act
When Massachusetts was first established, a council was formed. In the concil, 28 members were chosen by the colony. This bit of democratic representations were unique among colonies, and it was a right colonists took seriously, given the level of helping patrons. Lying was obvious when councilors were stated. -
Administration of Justice Act
The Administration of Justice Act was one of five laws to act the British Parliaments in 1774, in response to the Boston Tea Party. Assembled, the acts were known as the Coercive Acts (series of acts passed after the Boston Tea Party), or the Intolerable Acts. -
Quartering Act of 1774
The Quartering Act of 1774 was an amendment to the original Quartering Act was passed on June 2, 1765. This act was passed and enforced, along with many others acts, colonist knew the act was like the 'Intolerable Acts'(a series of punitive laws). They were reactions to the Boston Tea Party and that were aimed at silencing radical things in Massachusetts. In the previous act, the colonist had been required to provide housing for soldiers, but colonial legislatures had been poorly doing it. -
The Quebec Act
This act was imposed by the British Parliament to set the new authority to the Quebec territory, which was another colony in North America after the French and Indian War. Due to the very aggressive rebels and groups in the American colonies, the British Empire was anxious that the French Canadians would follow afterwards. The act was formed in order to make sure that they were loyal to the Parliament. -
American Revolutionary War
The American Revolutionary War Begins. -
Declaration of Independence
This is the day that the document was first read. But it was written on July 3rd, 1776
