Discontent Grows Timeline

  • Proclamation for 1763

    It prohibited Anglo-American colonists from settling on lands from the the French after the French and Indian War.
    Colonists ignored the proclamation and headed West.
  • Sugar Act

    The Sugar Act cut the duty on foreign molasses from 6 to 3 pence per gallon, retained high duty on foreign refined sugar , and prohibited the importation of all foreign rum
  • Currency Act

    It prohibited the printing and issuance of paper money by Colonial legislatures.
    Colonists were angry and felt that it left them underpaid for the goods. Without their their own paper money they couldn't maintain economic activities.
  • Stamp Act

    Required colonists to pay taxes on every page of paper printed that they used.
    Colonists violently protested and refused to pay taxes.
  • Quartering Act

    Required colonists to house British soldiers, feed them, and treat them like royalty.
    Colonists grew outraged and very tired of the act and protested it.
  • Declaratory Act

    Parliament was able to make laws binding American colonies in all cases whatsoever.
    Colonies were outraged and knew that more acts would come.
  • Townshend Act

    It initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea.
    Colonists organized boycotts of British goods to pressure Parliament to repeal the Townshend Acts.
  • Boston Massacre

    The Boston Massacre was a signal event leading to the Revolutionary War. It led directly to the Royal Governor evacuating the occupying army from the town of Boston.
    Adams and Revere used the massacre as propaganda, recreating a Henry Pelham painting and distributing copies all over the Boston area in order to incite the public. Revere in such a way as to cast the British in a more negative light.
  • Boston Tea Party

    An act of protest in which a group of 60 American colonists threw 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to agitate against both a tax on tea.
    Colonists protested and resisted. The Boston Tea Party was the first significant act of defiance by American colonists.
  • Quartering Act of 1774

    Allowed British troops to be housed in private homes and facilities
    Colonists refused and resisted.
  • Intolerable Acts

    The acts were a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party.
    Colonists created a show of unity, convening the First Continental Congress to discuss and negotiate a unified approach to the British.
  • Quebec Act

    It guaranteed the freedom of worship and restored French property rights.
    Th colonists felt that it was exhibiting the British Empire's intention to deny them their inalienable rights.