Understanding Colonial Unrest

Proclamation

Oct 7, 1763

The Proclamation of 1763 prohibited settlers from moving west of the Appalachian mountains.

Sugar Act

Apr 5, 1764

Improted molasses is taxed. The only molasses not taxed is that from the British West Indies.

Currency Act

Sep 1, 1764

Colonists are told not to print money. They must use English currency

Stamp Act

Mar 22, 1765

The Stamp Act required colonists to buy stamps for all paper products.

Quartering Act

Mar 24, 1765

The Quartering Act required the colonies to provide the British troops with supplies and barracks. It was taxes that werent directed tword the colonists.

Writs of Assistance

Nov 20, 1765

Colonists are smuggling (bringing in goods without the government knowing). That way they won't be taxed. England wants to cut down on smuggling. Search Warrants, Writs of Assistance make it legal for English soldiers to come into the homes of the colonists and look for smuggled goods.

Stamp Act taken away

Mar 17, 1766

Protesting by colonists makes England repeal (take away) the Stamp Act.

Declaratory Act

Mar 18, 1766

The Declaratory Act was an act to repeal the Stamp act because boycotts where hurting British Trade.

Townshend Act

Jun 29, 1767

This act allowed certain jobs and duties in the British plantations and colonies in America.

Townshend Acts Repealed; Tax on Tea Kept

Mar 1, 1770

The colonists boycott English goods to show they do not like the taxes, England takes away the Townshend Act taxes. But keeps the tax on imported tea.

Boston Massacre

Mar 5, 1770

A fight that broke out between soldiers and colonists in Boston. When the dust cleared, five bostonians were dead and ten were injured.

Intolerable Acts

Dec 1, 1773

England feels it must punish colonists for the Tea party. England closes the Boston harbor untill the tea is paid for. English soldiers will stay in the Boston area for awhile to keep an eye on the colonists.

Boston Tea Party

Dec 10, 1773

The Parliment passed the Taxes on Tea, which effected the tea buissness in the colonies.

Tea Act

Dec 16, 1773

The Tea Act allowed the final spark in the revolutionary movement of Boston, it did not force new taxes upon the colonists. It was designed to help the East Indian compony to sell millions of pounds of unsold tea.

Lexington and Concord (First Battle)

Apr 19, 1774

Fighting between Patriots and British troops at Lexington and Concord showed that colonists would not only fight for their rights, but were willing to die for them.

First Continental Congress

Sep 5, 1774

The act of the First Continental Congress was a meeting of representatives that debated the rights of the colonies.