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Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation issued by the British had the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains, and any west lands would belong to the Native Americans, but the Proclamation did not allow citizens and colonial governments to buy land or make any agreements with any natives, and only licensed traders were permitted to travel the west to make agreements with the natives. The colonials did not like the idea of the Proclamation which caused many colonials to be angry and not obey the Proclamation. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act was passed to require the colonists to pay tax on so many of the foreign products that England used, including wine, coffee, textiles, sugar, and molasses and it prohibited any shipment of many other important materials. This affected many colonists, where the sugar and molasses were starting to reduce into rum. The colonials were very furious and argued that the Sugar Act violated their liberty rights. -
Currency Act
The Currency Act was passed to prohibit colonists from printing any new bills. The colonists did not like this idea because they didn’t have money, and they started to protest and argue that the shortage of money would make this situation worse. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was an act where the British Parliament enforced a tax on all paper documents in the colonies and taxed the American colonists after the Seven Year’s War because of how deep the British were in debt after the War. The colonials did not like the idea of the act and they argued that the act was unconstitutional and they would fall into violence to threaten the stamp collectors into resigning. -
Quartering Act 1765
The Quartering Act was an act that required the colonies to house the British soldiers and if there were too many soldiers in a colony's house they would relocate the soldiers to somewhere such as in inns, barns, or other buildings. The colonists did not like this act at all because they believed they were violating the “Bill of Rights of 1689” where they were forbidden to keep a soldier without the permission of the Parliament. -
Declaratory Act
The Declaratory Act was an act that was passed by the British Parliament claiming that they completely had all the right to tax the colonies in North America. The colonials were not very upset at first but once the Townshend Act was passed the colonials sensed that the British government was acting cruelly. -
Townshend Act
The Townshend Act was a multiple of policies that were preceded by the British Parliament, in which it taxed many products imported to the American colonies. Some of the American colonies believed the act was an “abuse of power”, but those who had no impression in Parliament. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a riot but then turned into a deadly fight between the American colonists and British soldiers, killing many of the colonists during the fight. The colonials had a big impact, they believed they had to fight for their independence because of the British’s unfair taxation that made them enraged. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that was caused by American colonists who were mad at the British colonists for enforcing “taxation without representation”. Since Britain was in deep debt, the British Parliament applied a lot of taxes on American colonists to pay those debts they were in. -
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
The Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts) was an act that passed four laws by the British Parliament to “punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party.” The four laws that were passed included the Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act, and the Quartering Act. These four laws helped rouse a strong colonial resistance. -
Quartering Act 1774
The Quartering Act was an act that was applied to all the American colonies, this act allowed the governor to find houses and buildings where the British soldiers could stay. This is different from the Quartering Act from 1765 because the Governor was one looking for a house and not the colonies and how they were also required to give their housing to the British soldiers. -
Quebec Act
The Quebec Act was to attempt to deal with any questions that people had during the making of the French colony of Canada a territory of the British in North America. Among these attempts to deal with any questions, they had also been trying to consider if the practice of the Roman Catholic religion should be allowed or not, and if the French and English laws should be used in the courts of justice.