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Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 was the King's attempt of keeping the colonists out of Native territory (preserves) and avoiding conflict with said Natives. The colonists did not like this because they felt that they were being restricted and they ended up exploring west of the Appalachians anyway. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act put a tax on imported foreign wines, coffee, textiles, and indigo along with making the tax on molasses more moderate. The merchants in the colonies that worked as distillers were angered because the tax would have been "ruinous" to their business. -
Currency Act
This act made colonies switch to the currency that Britian was using. Since the colonists didn't have a hard currency system established it was a burden because there was a shortage in that type of currency. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act put a tax on everyday items like letters, playing cards, dices, bills, formal addresses, pamphlets, warrants, etc. This tax affected a lot of higher standing colonists whose jobs depended on paper, and colonists came together to boycott imported goods that required a stamp. This act leads to the creation of the "Sons of Liberty" who protested against the act. -
Quartering Act
This act required the colonists to open their towns to British soldiers in the colonies. It required them to feed and house them until they left. The colonies resented the act because they felt that the soldiers should ask for consent before moving into their extra barns and such. -
Declaratory Act
The Declaratory Act repealed the Stamp Act and lessened the Sugar Act because the boycott of imported products was hurting business in Britain. They also said that their authority over America was the same there as it was in Britain and that the laws or acts they passed were unchangeable and unremovable (binding.) -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts put a tax on British imported tea, glass, paper, lead, etc. This made the colonists mad but not as much as when the Stamp Act was enacted. When customs officials came to collect taxes they had a rough time so two British regiments dispatched to protect them. The soldiers being there had lead to the Boston Massacre that caused the repeal of all townish acts except the tax on tea. -
Boston Massacre
Around 9 am on March 5th a snowball fight turned into a shootout which ended up in the deaths of Crispus Attucks and four others. Crispus Attucks is widely known as the first to die in the American Revolution. -
Tea Act
The East India Company was losing profit and ended up appealing to the British Government which gave Britain control of tea in the colonies (monopoly.) Britain then enacted the Tea Act which allowed the East India Company to undersell tea making it unprofitable to smuggle tea which angered the colonists and caused the Boston Tea Party. -
Boston Tea Party
December 16, 1773 the Sons of Liberty disguised themselves as native peoples and sabotaged a ship full of imported tea from the East India Company. They threw 342 chests of tea into the sea. -
Quebec Act
Expansion of Quebec territory to the Ohio River. Gives Natives and Catholics rights in those regions. The colonists were mad because the Catholics were given rights there. (Catholics and Protestants didn't get along...) -
The Intolerable Acts
The first act was enacted March 31st, 1774 which closed the Boston Harbor to imports until the price of the tea destroyed was paid. Then two more were enacted May 20th: Public meetings in Massachusetts are forbidden unless sanctioned by the royal governor and any trial dealing with British Officials accused of capital offense should be transferred to England/another colony. Then June 2nd the Quartering act was enacted allowing British soldiers to stay in colonist's private homes.
