Kayleigh Blaney Acts Timeline

Navagation Acts

Oct 28, 1651

Purpose of Act: Directed the trade betwenn England and the colonies.
Outcome of Act: Colonial Merchants couldn't use foreign ships and prevented the colonists from sending certain products that made up English Empires.

Proclamation of 1763

Oct 7, 1763

Purpose of Act: It was so England could control westward movement.
Outcome of Act: Angered those who onwed shares in land companies. They were furious that Britain ingnored their land claim.

Sugar Act

Apr 5, 1764

Purpose of Act: to get people to pay taxes
Outcome of Act: Angered the colonists because British actions violated their right to be English citizens.

Stamp Act

Mar 22, 1765

Purpose of Act: to raise revenue and pay debt
Outcome of Act: Parliament had interfered in colonial affairs by taxing the colonies directly. It also taxed the colonists wiothout their consent.

Declaratory Act

Mar 18, 1766

Purpose of Act: to raise revneue and pay debt
Outcome of Act: made colonists mad.

Townshed Acts

Jun 6, 1767

Purpose of Act: to raise revenue and pay debt
Outcome of Act: colonist beleived thst only their own representatives had the right to tax them. They otganized another boycott.

Tea Act

May 10, 1773

Purpose of Act:to raise revenue and pay debt
Outcome of Act: colonial merchants called for a new boycott. They issued a pamphlet saying that rather parting with freedom they would part with their tea.

Quebec Act

Jan 1, 1774

Purpose of Act: to setup a government for Quebec
Outcome of Act: it ingnored the colonial claims of the land and colonists expressed their feelings in their name for the new laws- The Intolerable Acts.

Coercive Acts

Mar 1, 1774

Purpose of Act: to punish Massachusetts
Outcomeof act: colonists thought it violated their rights as English citizens like no quartering troops in private homes and no standing army in peacetime.