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Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 was the British's attempt at preventing conflict with Native Americans following the French and Indian War and colonial expansion. It caused restrictions on trade and land purchases between colonists and Native Americans which made the Native Americans angry due to a feeling of betrayal. The colonial response to this was protesting and an attempt to ignore it. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act imposed higher taxes on American colonies for certain goods to raise revenue for Britain. The colonial response to this was protest due to taxation without representation. -
Currency Act
The Currency Act regulated paper money that had been issued by American colonies. This law stopped any creation of new bills and the reissue of the already existing currency. The colonial response to this law was angry colonists who had been relying on paper money for things such as trade and debt payments which was one of the causes of the American Revolution. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act imposed taxes on American colonies in an effort to pay for the debt of the war. This act made it where colonists were required to buy stamped paper for certain things such as legal documents, playing cards, and newspapers. The colonial response to this was protest and boycotting of British goods. -
Quartering Act of 1765
The Quartering act of 1765 made it where colonists were required to provide things such as food, drinks, fuel, and transportation to the British colonists who were fighting in the war and currently stationed in their towns and villages. The colonial response to this was resentment from colonists who saw it as a violation of their rights and liberties. -
Declaratory Act
The Declaratory Act was a law passed by the British parliament after the repealing of the Stamp Act. It allowed parliament to make laws for the American colonies in all matters. The colonial response to this was anger from the colonists who saw it as a threat to their rights and liberties. -
Townshend Act
The Townshend Act was a series of multiple taxes imposed by the British parliament onto the American colonies. These taxes targeted things such as imports of paper, paint, oil, and tea. The colonial response to this was the argument that the colonists had no representation in parliament and that these taxes, like many others, violated their rights and liberties. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a bloody rebellion against the British parliament because of Britain's recent tax laws like the Stamp Act and Quartering Act which resulted in multiple deaths of both American colonists and British soldiers. In response to this, the American colonists tried to maintain power and get their rights and freedom back. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was an act of rebellion made by the American colonists against the British. The American colonists were angry about the recent taxes imposed on tea which led to the American colonists throwing 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbour. Some colonists responded to the Boston Tea Party in a positive way, while other were unhappy with the act of rebellion and wished that the situation would have been solved differently. -
Intolerable Act
The Intolerable Acts were a series of corrective laws passed by the British parliament whose reason was to punish the American Colonists for the Boston Tea Party and other previous protests. The colonial response to this act was the start towards a war with the American colonists. -
Quartering Act of 1774
The Quartering Act of 1774 was one of the Intolerable Acts imposed by the British Parliament. The purpose of this act was to create a more effective method of housing for British soldiers who were stationed in America. The colonial response to this act was of course negative due to the fact that the colonists saw it as a violation of their rights. -
Quebec Act
The Quebec Act was a law passed by the British Parliament in an attempt to pacify the French Canadians after they had lost their colony to Britain in 1763. The act gave Quebec a government and council, a large amount of territory, and other things that they had lost. The colonial response to this was fearful colonists because they were afraid that the French were going to soon return to their western borders.