Discontent Grows Timeline

  • Proclamation of 1763

    Made boundaries between the 13 colonies
  • Sugar act

    Taxed sugar, molasses, & other imported goods
  • Currency act

    Restricted and regulated the colonies money
  • Quartering Act 1765

    Required colonial authorities to provide food, drink, money, ect to british soldiers
  • Stamp act

    Colonists had to pay tax on items like papers, playing cards, dice, & documents
  • Declaratory act

    Approved the repeal of the stamp act
  • Townshend act

    Taxed glass, lead, paint, paper & tea
  • Boston Massacre

    9 british soldiers shot several people in a crowd
  • Boston tea party

    Responded to british taxation
  • Intolerable acts

  • Quartering Act of 1774

    Allowed british troops to house in peoples homes
  • Quebec Act

    Allowed catholic french people to get government jobs