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Proclamation on 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 prohibited colonist from settling west of the Appalachian crest and reserved land that was not settled in for the Native Americans. The colonist were not happy with this proclamation because they did not think that Britain could tell them where they could and could not settle. Most of the colonist in the Ohio River valley ignored the Proclamation and decide that they would not move. The picture included shows the line in which the colonist could not move west of. -
Currency Act
The Currency Act prohibited the use of any new bills or the reissue of existing currency. It abolished colonial bills. The colonist did not like this and many of them protested. They said that the trade deficit with Britain would just be worsened by the act because hard capital that would now have to be used is hard to get in the colonies. The picture included is of British currency that the colonist would now be required to use. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act was a law placed on the colonies by British Parliament that lowered the tax sugar, but also enforced tax collection of sugar, wine, other sugar products, and clothing. This is when the famous quote, "No Taxation Without Representation", came about because the colonist believed that Parliament had no right to tax them. Merchants got together and decided to boycott luxury goods from Britain. Eventually, the Sugar Act was repealed, but the Stamp Act took its place. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act affected all of the American Colonist by requiring them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper. The colonies of course did not like this. Along with boycotts of British goods and riots or attacks on the tax collectors, the Virginia House of Burgesses created Patrick Henry's Stamp Act Resolves which stated that Colonist had the same rights as the British especially when it came to being taxed by their own representatives. The picture included is of stamps that were used. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act required colonist to provide homes or barracks for the British soldiers that were in the colonies. The colonist were unhappy with this act because is caused them to have to pay taxes on the barracks that they were providing and for an army that they felt was unnecessary in the time of peace that they were having. The picture included is of British troops arriving in the colonies. -
Declaratory Acts
The Declaratory Acts were responses to the Sugar and Stamps Acts. They made taxing in the colonies the same as taxing in Great Britain. This Acts repealed the Stamp Act and asserted British government over the colonies. The colonist were happy that the Stamp Act had been repealed, but the amount of power that Great Britain had over them was scary to the colonist. -
Townshend Act
The Townshend Act was a series of acts that placed taxes on paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea that took away more of the colonist freedoms. The colonist were not happy with the new taxes and things turnt violent. The Boston Massacre was a result of the Townshend Act. The Boston Massacre was what started out as angry colonist threatening and insulting a British soldier in the street, then turned into violence, and ended with five colonist dead. The picture included is of the Boston Massacre. -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a deadly riot between the colonist and British soldiers. It ended in death of five colonist. The riot started because the colonist did not like the British troops presence. The British troops were taking jobs that were for colonist. This meant that they were making the colonists money that they needed to pay all he taxes that were being levied on them. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest against "taxation without representation", specifically the Tea Act, in which colonist dressed up as Mohawk Indians and boarded a British East India Company ship and dumped 342 chest of tea into Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. Some of the other colonist approved on this protest, but others did not like the actions that their fellow colonist took. Britain was very unhappy with it. They passed the Coercive Acts in response to their protest. -
Tea Act
This act made the British East India Company able to ship tea directly to the colonies instead of having to stop in England first, like they had previously been doing. This was not meant to anger colonist. It was just meant to help get the British East India Company out of debt. However, the colonist continued to rebel and cause riots. This act even led to the Boston Tea Party. -
Quartering Act
The second Quartering Act was much like the first. It demanded that colonist provide homes for British soldiers whether that be in barracks or even in their own private home. This angered the colonist because they had to pay more taxes to pay for all the barracks. They were also angered by the fact that the British soldiers were even there because they felt as if they were unnecessary due to the time of peace that the colonies were in. -
Coercive Act
The Coercive Act closed The Boston harbor until the lost tea could be paid for, ended the Massachusetts constitution and free elections of their town officials, moved all judicial authority to Britain, required colonist to provide housing to British troops, and extended freedom of worship to French-Canadian Catholics, which really angered Protestant colonist. Britain thought that this would end the rebellion, but it did the opposite by causing them to ban together and support Massachusetts.
