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Proclamation of 1763
This act was passed in an attempt to keep colonists from spreading past the Appalachian Mountains. It also limited trade with Indians past this area. Many colonists defied this act in order to find better farmland, while others only resented the trade restrictions. -
Sugar Act
This act was passed as an attempt to raise revenue from the American Colonies. This act placed a tax on imported sugar and molasses. Many colonists defied this act by bribery or smuggling. -
Currency Act
The Currency Act of 1764 extended the previous Currency Act of 1751 to all of the colonies. These acts were an attempt by Parliament to control the American currency system. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act issued a tax upon all paper documents. It was another of the acts passed in an attempt to boost revenue from the Colonies. Many colonists were outraged, and petitions were written to Great Britain's King. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act was an act passed that required colonies to provide suitable livings for British troops, whether this be barracks, inns, barns, or people's houses. The colonists didn't like this act, and it led to many street brawls between patriots and redcoats, and soon the Boston Massacre of 1770. -
Repeal Act
The Repeal Act, as shown by its name, repealed the Stamp Act passed in 1765, but it also instated a new act: the Declaratory Act of 1766. -
Declaratory Act
The Declaratory Act declared that the taxation laws were the same in Great Britain as in American Colonies, and it stated that Parliament had absolute power to declare laws in the Colonies, no matter the case. This led colonists to cry "No taxation without representation," and led to many outraged colonists. -
Townshend Act
The Townshend Acts imposed taxes on glass, leads, paint, paper, and tea imported into the colonies. Many colonists viewed these taxations as an abuse of power, and were outraged. Americans agreed to try to limit their imports from Britain. -
Boston Massacre
Redcoats fire into a crown of patriots, killing five people, and injuring three more. Colonists were outraged by this, and these five deaths were regarded as the first death of the American Revolution. -
Tea Act
This act imposed a tax upon tea, which enraged colonists, and was the cause of the Boston Tea Party. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was an act of retaliation by the colonists, during which they boarded a ship owned by the East India Company and threw crates of tea into the harbor. -
Coercive Acts
These acts were passed as a punishment to the colonies for the Boston Tea Party, and it consisted of five acts, which shut down Boston Harbor, limited democratic councils, made British officials immune to criminal charges, extended the Quartering Act to all occupied houses, and allowed Catholic worship along and in Canada.