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1773: Tea Act
Definition: reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company and help the company survive.
Colonist reaction: They boarded their ships dressed as Indians and dumped their loads overboard. -
1733: Molasses Act
Definition: Insistence of plantation owners in the British West Indies, Imposing a tax of six pence per gallon of molasses.
Colonist reaction: Smuggling became popular because the tax was rarely paid which nullified the law. -
Proclamation on 1763
Definition: No settlement West of the Appalachian Mountains.
Colonist reaction: responded Negatively, and made them suspicious because there were other restrictions in place too. -
1764: Sugar Act
Definition: Raised taxes on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies.
Colonist reaction: They thought it was a violation of their rights as Englishmen to be taxed without their consent. -
1765: Stamp Act
Definition: printed material has to be produced on stamped paper produced in London Carrying an embossed revenue stamp
Colonist Reaction: violent protest, threatened stamp distributors and mobs prevented stamp papers from entering the country. -
1765: Quatering Act
Definition: law for British soldiers to be provided with any needed accommodation or housing.
Colonist reaction: they said it violated their right in the Bill Of Rights. -
1766: Repeal of Stamp Act
Definition: took away the stamp act but brought up the Declatory Act.
Colonist reaction: protesting stopped and colonists were happy about this and didn’t pay attention to the law it brought up. -
1766: Declatory Act
Definition: asserting that British government can tax the colonist whenever they wanted
Colonist reaction: They thought they shouldn’t be taxed without representation -
1767: Townshed Act
Definition: designed to collect revenue from the colonist in America by putting taxes on imported goods
Colonist reaction: contributed to the colonist anger and they responded with a boycott and didn’t import British goods -
1770: Boston Massacre
Definition: A riot/ British troops fired on the mob and killed several of the colonist.
Colonial reaction: They seen it as a vicious attack on unarmed citizens and were outraged. -
1774: Intolerable acts
Definition: meant to punish the Massachusetts colonist for throwing a large tea shipment into the Boston Harbor.
Colonist reaction: drove them to call the first continental congress and formed a collective resistance against British oppression. -
1774: First Continental Congress
Definition: meeting of 12 delegates of the 13 colonies at Carpenters Hall in Philadelphia.
Colonial reaction: they were happy because they sent people from their colonies to discuss getting the intolerable acts repelled. -
1775: Lexington and Concord
Definition: The first battle of the revolutionary war, moved from Boston toward Lexington and Concord to seize supplies
Colonist reaction: they became upset, because they lost a lot of men during battle -
1775: Battle of Bunker Hill
Definition: the first great battle when British Drove Americans from Breed’s hill to Bunker
Colonist reaction: Inflicted many casualties against the enemy and the battle provided them with an important confidence boost. -
1775: Second Continental Congress
Definition: Removed the definition of “Militia”; The right of people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Olive branch Petition: Letters to King George III from members of the second continental congress, which represents the last attempt by the moderate party in North America to avoid a war of independence against Britain.
