Events and acts from 1763-1774

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  • The proclamation of 1763

    This act covered what the colonies could and could not do to the natives, their land, and how they traded.

  • Sugar Act

    It set a tax of 6 pence on sugar and molasses

  • Currency Act

    Protects British people from being paid in depreciating or fake money

  • Stamp Act

    Most parchment (stamps) has a tax, and the penalty for forging or lying about paying for it results in death

  • Declaratory Act

    British parliament had the same authority on taxing in Britain as it did on the colonies.

  • Townshend Act

    Tax on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea brought to the colonies.

  • Boston Massacre

    British soldiers killed people of Boston while under the attack of a mob.

  • Parliament Repeals Townshend Act

    The repeal was not really a repeal, more of a change.It kept many of the same parts like the tea levy and the board of customs.

  • Committee of Correspondence

    A group of colonials that were against the British control and made a union out of the colonies, Leading up to the Revolutionary War.

  • Tea Act

    Gave the British East India Company monopolies on selling tea in the colonies. This caused the Boston Tea Party

  • Boston Tea Party

    A political Protest in which people from Boston dumped all the british tea into the harbors

  • Boston Port Act

    This act was one King Georges responses to the Boston Tea Party which banned the colonists from using the Boston Port

  • Quartering Act

    Provide British Soldiers with anything that they needed/wanted.

  • Massachusetts Government Act

    Britain royally appointed a governor to Massachusetts since they felt that the Boston Tea Party showed the loss of control the mother country had upon the people of Boston.

  • Administration of Justice Act

    It protected British Officials that broke laws protecting them from scrutiny. They went to trials in another colony or back in England.

  • Quebec Act

    Took away all the territory and fur trade between Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Part of the intolerable acts.

  • First Continental Congress

    12 of the 13 colonies that met with each other to discuss things. This was formed in result of the intolerable acts because Britain felt like they were losing their grip on the colonies

  • Petition to the King

    king George the third received this petition in hopes to repeal the Intolerable Acts.