Understanding Colonial Unrest

Proclamation of 1763

Oct 7, 1763

It was illegal for colonist to move west to Applacian Mountains

Sugar act

Apr 5, 1764

a law passed by the British Parliament raisied duties on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies to give British sugar growers in the West Indies a hold on the colonial market.

Currency Act

Sep 1, 1764

This act was passed by the Parliament of Great Britain. It prohibited American colonies from issuing paper currency to be used as money.

Stamp Act

Mar 22, 1765

A law passed in 1765 by British Parliament that forced people to pay a special tax on certain items that were then stamped to show the tax had been pain. The certain items were items that were used in every day life.

Quartering Act

Mar 24, 1765

This act passed by Parliament ordering colonial assemblies to provide funds for the housing, food, and provisions for British troops.

Declaratory Act

Mar 18, 1766

This act was declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied repeal of the Stamp Act. It stated that Parliament's authority was the same in America as in Britain and asserted Parliament's authority to make laws binding on the American colonies.

Townshend Act

Jun 29, 1767

The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed beginning in 1767 by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America

Boston Massacre

Mar 5, 1770

In this act a mob of American colonists gathers at the Customs House in Boston and begins taunting the British soldiers guarding the building. Five colonists were dead or injured and two British soldiers were found guilty of manslaughter

Tea Act

May 10, 1773

This act was passed by Parliament , granted the British East India Company ownership on tea sales in American colonies

Boston Tea Party

Dec 16, 1773

This act happened when american patriots dressed as Mohawk Indians boarded the vessels of the East Indian Company docked in the Boston harbor and dumped all the 300 tea that was on the three ships into the ocean.

Intolerable act

Mar 31, 1774

A series of laws passed by the British in 1774 in an attempt to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party. One of the laws closed the port of Boston until the colonists paid for the tea that they had destroyed.

Quebec Act

Jun 22, 1774

The Quebec Act of 1774, formally known as the British North America (Quebec) Act 1774,[1] was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain setting procedures of governance in the Province of Quebec

Writs of Assistance

Feb 24, 1776

The Writs of Assistance were a law saying that anyone with a legal document could come into the colonists' houses without permission to look for smuggled goods.