-
Proclamation Line
- This happened because the colonists were going too far west and taking native land for farming tobacco leaving the soil exhausted
- Told the colonists they could not go west of the Appalachian Mountains
- To lower pressure between natives and the colonists
-
Sugar Act
- It lowered taxes from the molasses act
- Made an indirect tax on sugar by raising the price of sugar
- Meant to lower the amount of smuggling, in reality it did not
- Issued the Writes of Assistance
-
Sons of Liberty
- This was caused from the Stamp Act
- This was a main reason why the Boston Massacre happened
- They did a lot of boy cots, tarring and feathering
- They were a major force in Boston against the British
-
Tarring and Feathering
- This is when colonists would pour hot tar on primarily tax collectors and then put feathers on them to humiliate them because being a tax collector was seen as one of the worst jobs
- However loyalists this was seen as going too far to get revenge at the government and taxes
- This would lead to tax collectors being afraid to go to some places, and by not monitoring them it helps to lead to the peak of salutary neglect
- Inadvertently tarring and feathering led to the rise of British troops
-
Stamp Act
- Created a tax on all printed goods
- Direct tax, it is paid separate from the item
- Could go anywhere from 1 cent on newspaper to $10 on a diploma
- This caused a lot of colonial resistance
-
The First Quartering Act
- This required that the colonists had to house and feed British soldiers in the colonies
- This was very important because the colonists went from not seeing many British soldiers in the new world to seeing multiple every single day
- It gave the colonists paranoia about somethings they did
- This lead to more people realizing that Great Britain is controlling them too much for not being able to control them quickly, which led to the first continental congress, the second, and independence
-
The Townshend Acts
- The Townshend act was after the stamp and sugar acts but the British Stamp act and replaced it with this one
- It is a tax on glass, pain, tea, oil, and others
- The taxation on tea made the colonists very mad
- In ways it was similar to the navigation acts expect the money was used to pay for troops in the colonies and not to pay off a war
- It was repealed in 1770, only in place for 4 years
- This act was the predecessor of the first Quartering Act and also the Boston Tea Party
-
The Boston Massacre
- This was when 5 colonists that lived in Boston were shot in killed in the winter of 1770
- It is still up for debate who said fire and who did the first violent action, whether bullet fire, or snow/ice balls, but 5 colonists were still dead
- This was a major event in showing that the soldiers were not with the colonists, who were still apart of Britain, but that the new world was becoming separate from Great Britain
-
The Intolerable(Coercive) Acts
- This were 5 acts created by Britain to show that they still have power over the colonies
- The Acts are: Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Justice Act, The Second Quartering Act, and The Quebec Act
- This led to the separation of the colonies and the mother country later in the year because these acts combined with all of the other acts they have dealt with is just intolerable
- These acts made a lot of things happen such as it isolated Boston, and Bostons port was shut down
-
The First Continental Congress
- This was a meeting of the colonies to discuss what they need to do in response to the Intolerable Acts
- They focused on two questions, what are our rights, and how do we defend them
- This event created the Committee of Correspondence, and used boycotts and Non-Importation to give Britain a message
- The Committee of Correspondence blacklisted people, and inspected custom houses
- This meeting undoubtedly led to the revolution and the independence for the colonies from Great Britain