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What
Proclamation of
1763
1763-England
Sugar Act
Parliament,
desiring
revenue from
its North
American
colonies, in
1764.
Royal
Proclamation
sets aside land
in the
Appalachians
for American
Indians.
The first law
specifically
aimed at raising
colonial money
for the crown.
Taxation w/o
Representation
1765, after
American
Revolution.
Quartering Act
1765
Stamp Act
Britain/1764
Declaratory Act
Government
repealed the
stamp act
because
boycotts were
All of the
different taxes
Britain posted
upon the
colonists.
The Quartering
Act, which
required the
colonies to
provide
barracks and
supplies to
British troops.
Stamp Act It
taxed
newspapers,
almanacs,
pamphlets,
broadsides,
legal
documents,
dice, and
playing cards.
A declaration
by the British
Parliament in
1766 which
accompanied
Why
Colonial
Response
Because the
Colonists did
Indians were
not like this.
being driven
They wanted
out of their land the land for
by westward
themselves.
expansion
This prohibited
American
colonies from
issuing their
own currency
angering many
colonists.
Happened
because of thee
War.
The British
further angered
American
colonists with
the Quartering
Act.
Enacted to raise
money for
Britain. Issued
by Britain, the
stamps were
affixed to
documents or
packages to
show that the
tax had been
paid.
The declaration
stated that
Parliament's
authority was
the same in
American
colonist
responded to
the Sugar Act
with protest
they refused to
buy American’s
goods.
Colonists had a
revolution
against Britain.
After a leading
New York Son
of Liberty
issued a
broadside
attacking the
New York
Assembly
American
colonists
responded to
Parliament’s
acts with
organized
protest.
Parliament felt
that taxes were
implied in this
clause, other
members of
hurting British
trade and used
the declaration
to justify the
repeal
the repeal of the America as in
Stamp Act of
Britain and
1765.
asserted
Parliament's
authority to
make binding
laws on the
American
colonies.
Townshend Act
Townshend Act
1762
Boston Massacre
Five colonists
were killed by
British soldiers,
in the year of
1770.
Parliament
passed the
Townshend
Acts, which
initiated taxes
on glass, lead,
paint, paper,
and tea
On March 5, a
group of
soldiers
surrounded by
an unfriendly
crowd opened
fire, killing
three
Americans and
fatally
wounding two
more. A violent
uprising was
avoided only
with the
withdrawal of
the troops to
islands in the
harbor.
To help pay the
expenses
involved in
governing the
American
colonies
The arrival of
troops in
Boston
provoked
conflict
between
citizens and
soldiers.
Parliament and
many of the
colonists who
were busy
celebrating
what they saw
as their political
victory did not.
Other
Colonists were
outraged
because the
Declaratory Act
hinted that
more acts
would be
coming.
In 1770 the
parliament
withdrew all of
the Townshend
Act (1767)
taxes except for
the tax on tea.
The Boston
Massacre led
many colonists
to call for
stronger
boycotts and
British goods.
Some still
wanted to resist
the British rule.
Tea Act
1773
The British
Boston Tea Party
- Boston and
England
- 1773
Coercive(Intolerable England made
Acts)
many acts
because of the
Boston Tea
Party
1st Continental
1774, all
Congress
colonies except
Georgia.
By reducing the
tax on imported
British tea
British people
did not want to
sell their tea in
America
because of their
taxes.
Groups of men England wanted
disguised as
to tax the tea
Indians boarded and Boston
the ships and
didn’t want
dumped the tea taxes to be paid
in the harbor
Parliament
This happened
passed several
because of the
acts to punish
Boston Tea
Massachusetts
Party.
American
colonists
condemned the
act, and many
planned to
boycott tea.
They dumped
tea in the
harbor
The colonies
sent 56
delegates to the
first continental
congress.
The colonists
supported the
ban.
To try and get
the colonists
not to use
British goods
and to form
committees to
enforce it.