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Navigation Act
The purpose of the Act was so the colonists could only trade with British traders and ships. The outcome was that the colonists started to smuggle. -
Proclimation of 1763
The Proclimation of 1763 said that land west of the appalachian mountains was the indian land. And that the colonists couldn't go past the moutains. This made them angry because they already had land west of the moutains. -
Sugar Act
Parliment lowered tax, and to convince colonists to pay tax instead of smuggling. The colonists believed that these British action violated with their rights as English citizens, vice-admiralty courts violated their right to a jury trial. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was that the colonists had to pay tax on all printed materials. All printed materials had to have a stamp. In a reaction to the the colonists started to burn effigies, urged merchant boycottd, merchants also signed non-important agreements -
Declartory Act
The Declaratory Act said that "Parliament had the right to tax and make decisions for the British colonies in all cases". The reason the act was passed was because British merchants had lost so much business that they begged them to repeal the Stamp Act -
Townshend Act
The Act only applied to imported goods such as, glass, tea, and paper, with the tax neing paid at the port of entry. The colonists belived that only their own reresentatives had the right to tax them, they orginized boycotts. And the women formed "Daughters of Liberty" -
Tea Act
The act was passed because British East India was facing ruin, and this act let them have sole control for the trade of tea directly to shopkeepers and bypass colonial merchants. The coloinists merchants called for a new boycott. Colonists also vowed to stop the East India Company's ships from unloading. This also inspired "The Boston Tea Party" -
Quebec Act
This Act gave Government to Quebec & land west of the Appalachian Mts. and north of the Ohio River. The colonists called this act the Intolerable Act -
Coercive Acts
When the news of the Tea Party reached king George III he passed the Acts that were intended to punish the people of Massachusetts for their resistance to British law. The colonists said that the act was violating their rights as english citizens.
