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Proclamation of 1763
King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, in which it forbade settlers from settling past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. The purpose of the proclamation was to organize Great Britain's new North American empire and to stabilize relations with Native North Americans through regulation of trade, settlement, and land purchases on the western frontier. -
Sugar Act of 1764
The English products would be chaper then others they would get alot more sales then others aswell, "Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act (1733)" This hurt the British West Indies market in molasses and sugar and the market for rum. Lord Grenville was trying to bring the colonies in line with regard to payment of taxes. -
Currency Act Of 1764
there were no regulations and in fact no standard value on which to base the notes, confusion ensued. There was no standard value common to all of the colonies. British merchant-creditors were very uncomfortable with this system, because of the rapid depreciation of the notes due to regular fluctuations. They reacted in an ugly matter in which they tried to make it how the way they liked it. -
Stamp Act of 1765
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. Imposed on all Americans, required them to pay taxes aswell. Everyone had been effected by this judgement in which people reacted in a way that the government would have to change the law (So they thought). -
stamp Act Congress
The Stamp Act Congress was held on October 19, 1765 in New York City. When the British Parliament passed the Stamp Act, colonists were more than eager to show their displeasure towards it. The Stamp Act was meant to make the Americans pay bigger and more money. -
Declaratory Act of 1766
The Stamp Act of 1765 had backfired on the British Crown. The British were hoping to raise revenue by imposing the first direct tax on the colonies, but instead, a flaming opposition went coursing through the region. The colonies began boycotting British goods, and stopped supporting activities that benefited the Crown. -
Townsend Act of 1767
colonial history, series of four acts passed by the British Parliament in an attempt to assert what it considered to be its historic right to exert authority over the colonies through suspension of a recalcitrant representative assembly and through strict provisions for the collection of revenue duties. The British American colonists named the acts after Charles Townshend, who sponsored them. -
Quartering Act of 1765
The purpose of these laws was to take back hold of the colonies. Therefore, he asked Parliament to do something. Most colonies had supplied provisions during the war, but the issue was disputed in peacetime. The Province of New York was their headquarters, because the assembly had passed an Act to provide for the quartering of British regulars, but it expired on January 2, 1764,[2] The result was the Quartering Act of 1765, which went far beyond what Gage had requested.
