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Navigation Acts 1650's
To ensure that only England benifited from trade with the colonies. Parliment passed several laws between England and the colinies. Colonists at first accepted these acts but later they decided to resent British instructions. It made angry colonists because they wanted to sell their own products they manufactured to places with higher money. -
Proclamation of 1763
To prevent more fighting, Britain called a halt to the settler's westward expassion. It set the Applachian Nountains as the temporary western boundry for the colonies. It angered those who owned sharies in land companies. These angered people were called speculators who were furious that Britain ignored their land claims. -
Sugar Act 1764
This act lowered the tax on imported molasses. Greenville hoped the lower tax would convince colonists to pay the tax instead of smugling. It angered colonists because they believed these British actions violated, or interfered with, their rights as English citizens. Writs of assistance violated their right to be secure in their homes. -
Stamp Act of 1765
Placed a tax on almost all printed meterial, including newspaper, wills, and playing cards. All printed material had to have a stamp after the tax was paid. Parliament had interfered in colonial affairs by taxing the colonists directly. It taxed the colonists without their consent and this made them angry because they believed it violated their English rights. -
Declaratory Act 1766
Parliament had the right to tax and make decisions for the British colonies "in all cases". It led up to the next Acts made by Parliament. It angered colonists because it allowed the Parliament to tax them in all cases no matter what without their say in it. -
Townshend Acts 1767
It was a set of laws that would only apply to imported goods such as glass, tea, and paper with the tax being paid at the port of entry. It angered because they believed that only their own representatives had the right to tax them. The colonists organized another boycott. -
Tea Act 1773
To save the British East Indian company, parliament passed this act. This law allowed the company a virtual monopoly of the tea trade in America. Colonial merchants called for a new boycott, colonists vowed to stop the East Indian company ships from unloading. The daughters of Liberty issued a pamplet declaring rather than part with freedom "we'll part with our tea." -
Coercive Acts 1774 (Intolerable Acts)
The act was passed whent the king George III relized that Britian was loseing control of the colonies. These laws were intended to punish the people of Massachusetts for their resistance to British laws. It made then angry because colonists had to pay back for the ruined tea. This act also prevented the arrival of food and other supplies that normally came by ship. The laws also took away certain rights. The colonists thought that the acts violated their rights as English citizens. -
Quebec Act 1774
The act set up government for Quebec. It also gave Quebec the area west of the Appalachians and North of the Ohio river. This provision ignored colonial claims to the area. The colonists expressed their feelings in their name for the new laws, the intolerable Acts. Rhey were angered by this ans were at their bitter end.
