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The sugar act
It was a tax lowered on molasses and was introduced importers to buy molasses from the british colonies instead of taking it from the competing french and spanish colonies. The sugar act was repealed in 1765 and was due to the overwhelming anger from colonist. But then the british imposed the stamp act. -
Currency act of 1764
Unlike the other act, this did not prohibit the colonies from using/creating paper money. It forbiad them from designating future currency to find future excretions as legal tender for private/public debts. -
Quartering act
This act required colonies to house the British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies. The quartering act had very little impact on North Carolina because no British troops were quartered in this colony at the time. -
Declaratory act
This act stated that British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain, meaning they were in complete authority to make binding laws on the American Colonies. Many in the colonies celebrated the repeal of the Stamp Act and did not vigorously protest the Declaratory Act. -
Currency act, Boston Massacre
This act prohibited the issue of new bills of credit by new England. The para lament decided to do this so they could control depreciation against silver and sterling. They wanted to ensure its value so they could pay off their debt to the British merchants. The British and Americans were celebrating a victory. The currency act wouldn't allow them to print their money and use it The colonist protested against this act. -
Tea Act
The tea act granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies. Their resistance culminated in which colonists boarded East India Company ships and dumped their loads of tea overboard. -
Boston tea party
American patriots disguising as Mohawk Indians then began to toss 342 chests of tea belonging to the British. This act in history served as a protest against taxation.The Coercive Acts of 1774 were intended to punish the colony in general and Boston in particular, both for the Tea Party and for the pattern of resistance it exemplified. -
The first continental congress
The thirteen colonies got together for a meeting September 5 to October 26, 1774, It was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen colonies. They met to organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts. -
Boston Port Act
The British parliament blocked the port of Boston and demanded that the city's people pay for the nearly $1 million worth of tea dumped into Boston Harbor during the Boston Tea Party. This punished the inhabitants of Boston, Massachusetts for the incident that would become known as the Boston Tea Party. -
Quebec Act
The act was a permanent administration in Canada replacing the temporary government created at the time of the Proclamation of 1763. It gave the French Canadians complete religious freedom and restored the French form of civil law. -
Edenton tea party
This act was a political protest in Edenton, North Carolina, in response to the Tea Act, that was passed by the British Parliament in 1773. British say the incident was not taken seriously because it was led by women. North Carolina resolved to boycott all British tea and cloth received. -
Ride of Paul Revere
That midnight, Paul revere left his home and set out to warn the people that the British were coming. He rode through the town spreading the news and giving out a sign at the north church tower in Concord, Massachusetts through a signal light. -
The Second Congress
The Second Congress managed the Colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. -
Declaration of Independence
The deceleration of independence was when america broke away from the control of great Britain and got its freedom. North Carolina became a free state as well as the others. The Declaration summarized the colonists' motivations for seeking independence. -
Articles of Confederation
A document that established the functions of the national government of the United States after it declared its independence from Great Britain.
