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proclamation of 1763
King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. The colonist ended up moving to west of Appalachian mountain -
Sugar Act
Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act, which was about to expire. Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses in the hopes Colonist would stop smuggling. Yet Colonist still smuggled foreign- made molasses into the colonies anyways. -
The Currency Act
The Currency Act required colonists to pay British merchants in gold and silver, rather than inflated colonial paper currency. This made it illegal for colonies to produce paper money. The colonist were very upset with it because it was impossible to pay in gold or silver. They restored too the barter system to bypass the law. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.Colonists got so angry they attacked some of the British stamp agents and tarred and feathered them. Also delegates from nine colonies met in New York City to issue a declaration if rights which stated that Parliament lacked the power to impose taxes on the colonies because they were not Represented in Parliament -
Quartering act
An act by the British that allowed them to have a standing army in America in peacetime, made colonists pay for soldiers food and housing and could be stationed in colonists homes.Colonists hated it. Colonists resented and opposed this act because they were being taxed to pay for provisions and barracks for the army. -
Repeal of Stamp Act
After months of protest, and an appeal by Benjamin Franklin before the British House of Commons, Parliament voted to repeal the Stamp Act in March 1766. However, the same day, Parliament passed the Declaratory Acts, asserting that the British government had free and total legislative power over the colonies. -
Townshend Acts
Townshend Acts imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies. Townshend hoped the acts would defray imperial expenses in the colonies, but many Americans viewed the taxation as an abuse of power, resulting in the passage of agreements to limit imports from Britain. In result colonists boycotted items. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry. Samuel Adams and others labeled this the Boston Massacre. The colonist presented it as British attack on defenseless citizens. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party took place because the colonists did not want to have to pay taxes on the British tea. ... They thought that the tea would put all of the colonists out of business. At last, the "Indians" ended up dumping 18,000 pounds of the East Indian Company's tea into the waters of Boston Harbor. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were passed in 1774 to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party. There were three major acts involved that angered the colonists. the Intolerable Acts which was to shut down Boston Harbor, Quartering Act,Thomas George was appointed the new governor of Massachusetts he also placed Boston under material law or rule imposed by military forces.Colonies moved into action and assembled the 1st Continental congress. Individual colonies began to unify.
