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Proclamation of 1763
Royal Proclamation sets aside lands west of the Appalachians for American Indians.
-Angering colonists who wanted the land for themselves and take over the land -
Currency Act 1764
This act prohibited American colonies from issuing their own currency, angering many American colonists.
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Sugar Act 1764
Parliament, desiring revenue from its North American colonies, passed the first law specifically aimed at raising colonial money for the Crown. The act increased duties on non-British goods shipped to the colonies. **Decreased duties on British goods. And the British enforce the law against smugglers
-The colonists protested and began practicing nonimportation and refuse to use English goods. -
Quartering Act 1765
The British further angered American colonists with the Quartering Act, which required the colonies to provide barracks and supplies to British troops.
-When the New York Assembly refused to assist in quartering troops, fights broke out between the colonists and Parliament suspended the Assembly’s powers but never carried out the suspension, since the Assembly soon agreed to contribute money toward the quartering of troops. -
Stamp Act 1765
Parliament’s first direct tax on the American colonies, this act, like those passed in 1764, was enacted to raise money for Britain. It taxed newspapers, almanacs, pamphlets, broadsides, legal documents, dice, and playing cards. Issued by Britain, the stamps were affixed to documents or packages to show that the tax had been paid. -
Stamp Act Cont. 1765
A secret organization the Sons of Liberty was created, aimed at intimidating the stamp agents who collected Parliament’s taxes. The Stamp Act Congress passed a “Declaration of Rights and Grievances,” which claimed that American colonists were equal to all other British citizens, protested taxation without representation, and stated that without colonial representation in Parliament could not tax colonists. In addition, the colonists increased their nonimportation efforts. -
Declaratory Act 1766
The repeal of the Stamp Act did not mean that Great Britain was surrendering any control over its colonies. The Declaratory Act, passed by Parliament on the same day the Stamp Act was repealed, stated that Parliament could make laws binding the American colonies “in all cases whatsoever.”
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Town-shed Act 1767
To help pay the expenses involved in governing the American colonies, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, which initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea.
-Because of the reduced profits resulting from the colonial boycott of imported British goods, Parliament withdrew all of the Townshend Act (1767) taxes except for the tax on tea.
- in 1770 the town-shed act is repealed but the tax on tea remained -
Boston Massacre 1770
The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars on March 5, 1770. It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768 to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the Townshend Acts. -
Boston Tea Party 1773
The Boston Tea Party initially referred to by John Adams as "the Destruction of the Tea in Boston" was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty. In Boston When British tea ships arrived in Boston harbor, many citizens wanted the tea sent back to England without the payment of any taxes. The royal governor insisted on payment of all taxes. On December 16, a group of men disguised as Indians boarded the ships and dumped all the tea in the harbor. -
Intolerable acts
When British prime minister heard about the boston tea party he was furious. Parlament decited to punish boston. It was really called the coerive acts but the colonist called it the intolerable acts. One of the punishments was boston harbor was closed till paid for ruined tea. -
Boston Port Act
AN ACT to discontinue, in such manner, and for or such time as are therein mentioned, the landing and discharging, lading or shipping, of goods, wares, and merchandise, at the town, and within the harbour, of Boston, in the province of Massachuset's Bay, in North America. -
Quebec Act 1774
Quebec Act, 1774, passed by the British Parliament to institute a permanent administration in Canada replacing the temporary government created at the time of the Proclamation of 1763. It gave the French Canadians complete religious freedom and restored the French form of civil law. -
Quartering Act 1774
Parliament broadened its previous Quartering Act (1765). British troops could now be quartered in any occupied dwelling. -To protest Britain’s actions, Massachusetts suggested a return to nonimportation, but several states preferred a congress of all the colonies to discuss united resistance. The colonies soon named delegates to a congress — the First Continental Congress — to meet in Philadelphia on September 5. -
First Conteinental Congress
The First Continental Congress met in carpenters hall in Philadelphia from September 5 to October 26. It was a convention of people from 12 British north American colonies early in the revolution. Meeting was called in response to pass of the Coercive Acts. Was formed to protest the intolerable acts.