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Proclemation of 1763
The proclamation forbade colonists from crossing the Appalachian mountains, because Great Britain decided that if the colonists took too much land, the Indians would attack, and Britain did not want to be at war with the Indians. This ended the bad blood between the British Empire and France. -
The sugar act
The Sugar Act was designed to regulate commerce and trade especially in the New England region. The impact of the Sugar Act was a decrease in trade between the American colonies and foreign trades. They where upset because they where actually enforcing it and couldn't get around it, and they smuggled. -
Currency Act
This Acts sought to protect British merchants and creditors from being paid in depreciated colonial currency. It prohibited the issue of any new 'Bills of Credit' and the re-issue of existing currency by the American colonists. More power and athory was taken away. -
Quartering Act 1765
This act required colonists to provide housing and supplies to British soldiers. This act only increase tensions between the American colonies and the British government. -
The Stamp Act
This was the first internal tax on American colonists by the British Parliament. The act imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies. Including licenses, newspaper, bills, legal documents, which had to have a special stamp that had to be purchased. -
Declaratory Act
The declaratory act states that the British Parliament’s taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain. The act helped repeal the Stamp Act and to show that parament has the power to enact any law. -
Townshend Act
The Townshend act made people pay duties on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea that was delivered to the colonies. The tax were to pay the salaries of colonial governors and judges, ensuring the loyalty of America’s governmental officials to the British Crown. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a confrontation on March 5, 1770, in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston. The event in Boston helped to unite the colonies against Britain. Most people where out of work, so this accured. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. The Boston Tea Party was one of the main causes of the Revolutionary War. -
Intolerable Act
The Intolerable Acts were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British Government. The Intolerable Acts had some of the most significant revolts and rebellions that eventually led to the American Revolution. Designed to punish Boston and Massachusetts. They Organized the first continental congress. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act 1774 was known as one of the Coercive Acts in Great Britain, and as part of the intolerable acts in the colonies. It was different from the first one because it allowed the governor to accommodate the soldiers in appropriate buildings if the colonial legislatures failed to do so. -
Quebec Act
Quebec Act had First Amendment principles of religious freedom. The law provided for the protection of the Roman Catholic faith. This causes a distrust of loyal American colonies under British rule and the acceleration of the American Revolution.