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Seven Year's War (French-Indian War) 1756-1763
-Great Britain and France were major combatants
-Native alliances were formed
-GB comes out on top -
Sugar Act
This act lowers taxes and increases enforcement.
ie: 6 Pence --> 3 Pence
This increases enforcement -
Proclamation
Issued by King George III following Great Britain's gain 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. -
Currency Act
British merchants and creditors could not be paid in colonial currency -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act of 1765 was the first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British government. The act, which imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies, came at a time when the British Empire was deep in debt from the Seven Years’ War (1756-63) and looking to its North American colonies as a revenue source. Repealed in 1766 -
Declaratory Act
The Declaratory Act was passed by the British parliament to affirm its power to legislate for the colonies “in all cases whatsoever”. The declaration stated that Parliament's authority was the same in America as in Britain and asserted Parliament's authority to pass laws that were binding on the American colonies. -
Townshend Acts
-Series of external taxes
-Further reduction of Salutary Acts
-Makes Colonists feel strangled
-Colonists started to boycott
-Raise revenue
British Troops occupy Boston -
Boston Massacre
a riot in Boston arising from the resentment of Boston colonists toward British troops quartered in the city, in which the troops fired on the mob and killed several persons -
Gaspee Affair
One of the British trading ships was set on fire off the coast of Rhode Island -
Boston Tea Party
This act from American colonies served as a protest against taxation. Seeking to boost the East India Company, British Parliament adjusted import duties with the passage of the Tea Act in 1773. While consignees in Charleston, New York, and Philadelphia rejected tea shipments, merchants in Boston refused to concede to Patriot pressure. On the night of December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. -
First Continental Congress
A meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies who met from September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania early in the American Revolution. Accomplishments:
-Compact among colonies to boycott British goods -
Intolerable (Coercive Acts)
The Intolerable Acts (also called the Coercive Acts) were harsh laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774. They were meant to punish the American colonists for the Boston Tea Party and other protests
Responses:
-Boston Port Act: blockade for ships
-Quartering Act Revisions: provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations
-Massachusetts Government Act: governor gains more rights and the entire dynamic within the government changes