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Navigation Acts 1650's
Directed the trade between England and colonies. Merchants who had goods to send to England could not ues foriegn ships, even if ships had cheaper rates, and not send certain products outside area that made up England empire. -
Proclamation of 1763
Set Appalachian Mountains as temporary western boundary for the colonies. Angered those who shares in land companies, and Britian ignored land claims. -
Sugar Act 1764
Lowered tax on imported molasses to pay tax instead of smuggling. Believed British actions violated, and interfered with rights as English citizens. -
Stamp Act of 1765
Tax on almost all printed material, including newspapers, wills, and playing cards. Passed a resolution, a formal expression of opinion and burned effigies that is a rag figure representing tax collectors and destroying houses. -
Declatory Act 1766
Parliament had right to tax and make decisions for British colonies "in all cases". Parliament passed laws Townshend Acts. -
Townshend Acts 1767
Taxed imported goods such as glass, tea and paper with tax being paid at the port of entry. British taxes angered the colonists and believed only their own representatives had right to tax them. -
Tea Act 1773
Law allowed company a virtual monopoly, or sole control of trade for tea in America. Company sell tea directly to shopkeepers and bypass colonial merchants who normally distributed tea. Called for new boycott, and colonists vowed to stop East India company's ships from unloading. -
Coercive Acts 1774
Harsh laws were intended to punish people of Massachusetts for their resistance to British law. Closed Boston Harbor until Massachusetts colonists paid for ruined tea, prevented arrival of food and other supplies that normally came by ship, took away certian rights. -
Quebec Act 1774
Quebec Act set up government for Quebec, and gave Quebec area west of Appalachians and north of Ohio River. Colonists expressed their feelings in their name for new laws the Intolerable Acts.
