Timeline 1763-1774

By junecruz

  • Proclamation of 1763

    This proclamation declared that the colonist couldn't move west to claim land. The colonist moved to the west anyways because they cared about owning land more than paying for the debt that was left.

  • Sugar Act

    This Act denied the importation of rum, made molasses prices very high and made taxes more outrageous. This resulted in the colonist protesting against this act.

  • Currency Act

    This act made it so the colonies couldn't use any other type of currency to pay for anything except for British currency. The colonist wasn't happy about this and protested since they were broke and getting that currency was difficult during that time.

  • Stamp Act

    This act decreed that anything and almost everything had to have an official stamp which went along with paying the tax of that stamp. This made the colonist angry since they didn't have that many to pay those taxes.

  • Quartering Act

    This act required colonists to house troops even if they didn't want to. As a result, this made the colonist angry of this act.

  • Declaratory Act

    This act declare that all the taxes will be similar in both the colonies and Great Britain. This made the colonies happy temporarily since the Stamp Act as appealed also.

  • Townshend Act

    This began taxes on many common things that weren't imported. This angered the colonist since it was just a loophole to the Sugar Act.

  • Boston Massacre

    This was a riot against the British. This angered the colonist more because they killed 5 colonists.

  • Boston Tea Party

    This is when colonists revolted by throwing large amounts of tea into a river. This made the colonist happy since it made the British see how they reacted to the new taxes.

  • Intolerable Act(Coercive Act)

    This was a set of laws made to punish the colonist for the Boston Tea Party. This made the colonist angry because it had the reverse effect on their protest.

  • Quartering Act

    This allowed royal governors to make people house soldiers. This made the colonist angry because this was worse than the first quartering act.

  • Quebec Act

    This act revoked the Proclamation of 1763 to help gain the trust of the French-speaking people in Quebec. This affected the colonist greatly since it didn't allow them to basically do anything justly.