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Proclamation of 1763
It forbid the colonist from buying land west of the Appalachians. To enforce it the British put 10,000 troops in the colonies. It was the first time a standing army has been stationed in the colonies in peacetime. Then western settlers had to leave any Indian land and put restrictions on trading with Indians on traders with license. -
Sugar Act
It forced duties on coffee, indigo, textiles, and foreign wines that were imported to the colonies. It also required ships to fill out forms listing their stock to fight smuggling. -
Currency Act
The Currency Act forced colonist to pay off debts in only British currency. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act required a tax stamp on legal documents, almanacs, newspapers, pamphlets, and playing cards. This was the first direct tax Parliament had put on the colonies and it violated the colonist right that they must consent to the taxes that are apposed onto them. In return to this colonists stop buying British goods and intimidated those who placed stamps into retiring. -
Quartering Act
It forced colonist to have British soldiers in unoccupied buildings and give them what they needed like bed, drinks, and lighting. -
Townshend Act
It forced new duties on imports of lead, paint, glass, paper, and tea to the colonies. Money from the acts was used to pay colonial governors and judges. -
Declaratory Act
The Declaratory Act was the British showing that it is allowed to make laws that govern the colonist. -
Boston Massacre
British soldiers open fired into a crowd in Boston hence the name, killing five and wounding six. -
Boston Tea Party
A group of colonist in Boston, dressed up like Native Americans, snuck aboard three ships and dumped 342 canisters of tea into the harbor. The British government was not happy so it closed Boston harbor to trade, placed modifications on the Massachusetts colonial charter, then forbid meetings of the town that happened more than once a year. -
Quartering Act
This new Quartering Act now also allowed royal governors to find homes and buildings to house British soldiers. -
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
The Intolerable Acts consisted of four acts and they were the Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act, and the Quartering Act. -
Quebec Act
The Quebec Act emancipated all Catholic French settlers and allowed them to reinstate their own laws along with British law.