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Currency acts
The Currency Act is the name of several Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain that regulated paper money issued by the colonies of British America. -
Proclamation of 1763
Forbade settlers from settling past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
Sugar act
Colonial merchants had to pay 6 pence per gallon of mollases or sugar. -
Stamp Act
The stamp act imposed a direct tax by the British Parliament specifically on the colonies of British America, and it required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying a revenue stamp. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act is a name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the 18th century. Parliament enacted them to order local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations. -
writs of Assistance
is a written order issued by a court instructing a law enforcement official, such as a sheriff or a tax collector, to perform a certain task. -
American revolutionary War
The American Revolution was a political upheaval, 1765–1783, as the Thirteen American Colonies broke from the British Empire and formed the independent nation, the United States of America. -
Declaratory Act
The American Colonies Act 1766 , commonly known as the Declaratory Act, was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765. -
Townshend Acts
A series of four acts passed by the British Parliament in an attempt to assert what it considered to be its historic right to exert authority over the colonies through suspension of a recalcitrant representative assembly and through strict provisions for the collection of revenue duties. -
Boston Masscre
The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others. -
Tea act
An act to allow a drawback of the duties of customs on the exportation of tea to any of his Majesty's colonies or plantations in America; to increase the deposit on bohea tea to be sold at the India Company's sales; and to impower the commissioners of the treasury to grant licences to the East India Company to export tea duty-free. -
Intolerable acts
The Intolerable Acts was the Patriot name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament, in 1774 relating to Massachusetts after the Boston Tea party. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. Disguised as American Indians, the demonstrators destroyed an entire shipment of tea, which had been sent by the East India Company, in defiance of the Tea Act of May 10, 1773.
