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Navigation Acts
The Navigation acts were put in place to restrict use of foreign ships doing trading between the colonies and mainland England. These acts tired to keep all the trade benefits inside the empire. Also minimizing the loss of gold and silver to foreigners. The acts caused resentment among the colonies. They required all imports to be either bought from England or resold by an english merchant. This is an example of distrust within the colonies. The British government meant to make trade better for -
Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 gave the Royal British government control of all land from the eastern seaboard to the Mississippi River. It originally belongs to the French but was lost after the French and Indian/7 Years War. It had expanded the original thirteen colonies to the southern tip of Florida, up into Quebec, and west to the Mississippi.The colonist did not like the fact that most of the new, overtaken land had many tribes that were spread out all over the place. Many colonist worried that -
Sugar Act
The act was a revamped version of the Molasses act (1733). Although reducing the tax on imported molasses from 6 pence to 3 pence, it caused more foreign goods to be taxed such as sugar, pimiento, certain wines, cambric and printed calico, coffee, and further, regulated the export of lumber and iron. The rum industry in the colonies almost immediately took a dramatic downward turn.This act upset the colonist very much. It had cut off some of the major trading countries that lead to disruption in -
Stamp Act
This act was one of the steps that the british parliament took to try to recoup the money they had lost during the Seven Years war. It put a stamp duty on newspapers, legal, and commercial documents. It was also used to pay soldiers protecting the frontier near the Appalachian Mountains.Colonist thought that this act was a direct way to raise money in the colonies without approval of colonial legislature. The colonist also reasoned that if the act passed without problems, the stepping stones wou -
Quartering Act
A law designed to provide living quarters, food, drink, better pay for soldiers, and to establish more control within the colonies under his majesty's rule, king George III. Force colonist to have a British soldier living within their household.Colonist did not like that fact that the british government essentially used their personal homes for barracks for the royal army. It was an attack on their basic rights.The colonist distrusted the British government after the Quartering act was put into -
Townshend Acts
These were taxes that targeted glass, oil, paper, paint, lead, and tea and was designed to raise ￡40,000 from the colonies every year. It was used to pay governors and judges in the colonies to keep them loyal to Great Britain as well as to try to recoup from the Seven Years war. This resurrected the same feelings that the colonist had when the Stamp Act was put into place. Parliament was met with much resistance from the colonies.Colonist regained much of the feelings felt for the stamp act. Di -
Boston Massecre
A “street fight” in the middle of the city of Boston between colonist and squad of British Soldiers. The colonist attacked the soldiers with snowballs, stones, and other items. The soldiers shot back in defence, killing three on the spot, injured eight, which two died later. The soldiers were put on trial for murder. But all were acquitted. This caused the royal government to pull troops out of boston and lead straight to armed rebellion within the colonies.The colonies claimed that it was a br -
Boston Tea Party
A political protest against the taxation of tea in the colonies. A group of men, some in disguises, boarded a ship and destroyed and entire shipment of tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor.The colonist declared this as a means of getting even with British Parliament. A quote of the protest “no taxation without representation”.The Boston Tea Party is a different way of acting in violence against the British government. A number bostonians destroyed an entire shipment of tea that had been brought -
Intollerable Acts
A group of acts set in place to try to regain control over the colonist. Ranging from shutting down the port in Boston, to the revamping of the Quartering act, to having the British government taking total control over the government in Massachusetts, and even allow royal officials to have their trial taken place elsewhere if they felt they would not get a fair trial in Massachusetts.This outraged the colonist. Massachusetts colonist could not receive any goods from anywhere in the world. Also, -
Lexington & Concord
The first official battles of the American Revolution. The colonist finally wanted to get away from the horrible treatment of the British government. These battles were the first step on the road to freedom for the colonist of America. Many colonist were willing to sacrifice themselves for the good of the rest of the people in the colonies. Many were excited to finally take action back at the power that had been ruling over them for so long.The first act of violence that started a war. The first
