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Navigation Act
Response:
They smuggled goods, Salutary neglect, ignored them since good for profit. -
Sugar Act
Cause:
Intended to stop trade between the colonies and the Dutch, French and Spanish. They needed money for the French and Indian war. | Description:
Revised duties on sugar, molasses, tea, coffee, wine. Made it hard to export these items other than Britain. | Response:
Couldn't make rum due to lack of sugar, unhappy since trade with other countries had to stop, colonial economy was disrupted due to this, boycotting British luxury and tried to find ways to increase colonial manufacturing. | -
Stamp Act
Date:
03/22/1765 thru 03/18/1766 | Cause:
Debt from wars, expenses of colonies | Description:
Documents must contain a revenue stamp to be legal, and had to buy it for every paper good. | Response:
Public protest around Boston, sons of liberty protested, government homes were burned or looted. | -
Quartering Act
Cause:
Protests | Description:
British troops must be given housing on demand from the king, they must also provide food, cloths and housing. But the king could not do so in subject's homes in England. | Response:
New York assembly is punished for not complying, -
Declaratory Act
Cause:
Protests, repealing of the stamp act | Description: Parliament declares sovereignty over colonies in all cases. | Response:
The colonials were happy due to the repealing of the stamp act. -
Townshend Act
Description:
An act created by Charles Townshend that placed a tax on tea, glass, paper, paint and lead. | Response:
It met resistance, especially in Boston.This prompted the government to send more troops which led to the King street accident or Boston massacre. A new political group called the daughters of liberty organised boycotting British goods, Georgia house was dissolved. -
Tea Act
Cause:
To make the colonies by British tea from them at cheaper price rather than dutch tea or other countries. Bailout for the company. | Description:
The East India Company was granted a monopoly, allowed tea to be shipped by British companies. | Response:
Led to the Boston tea party, in which they threw tea overboard. they believed it violated their rights. | -
Coercive Act (Intolerable Act)
Cause:
Boston Tea Party | Description:
Closes Boston Harbor; replacing current government of Massachusetts; restricts many other government meetings, increased powers of military governor. Quartering act was expanded, administration justice act- which led the British officials who broke law in a colony get a re-trial in England. Quebec Act was passed | Response:
They started rebelling against other laws. -
Quebec Act
Cause:
The acts were intended to suppress rebellion in Massachusetts and isolate it from the other colonies. | Description:
One of the coercive act, Quebec Act gave freedom of worship to Catholics in Canada. extended British-Canada boundary, gave colonist's land past Mississippi. | Response:
Other colonies came to Massachusetts’ defense and formed the First Continental Congress to discuss forming a united resistance against British rule in the colonies.