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Sugar Act
The Sugar Act of 1733 was a tax on sugar. The British put a tax on sugar because the needed more money. They needed more money because the French Indian War cost a lot of money. This was the first time the colonist have been taxed and they did not like it one bit! -
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The French & Indian War
It was a war fought between Great Britain and its two enemies, the French and the Indians of North America. Most of the battles were in Canada. American colonists, including George Washington, fought with the British in this war, which lasted from 1754 to 1763. The British won the war and won the right to keep Canada and several other possessions in the New World. This made Brits. So they had to tax the colonists. After the war, the Brits were responsible for the Indians. -
French and Indian War - the Treaty of Paris
It was a war fought between Great Britain and its two enemies, the French and the Indians of North America. Most of the battles were in Canada. American colonists, including George Washington, fought with the British in this war, which lasted from 1754 to 1763. The British won the war and won the right to keep Canada and several other possessions in the New World. The war was expensive, so they taxed the colonists. Ths also made it so that the Colonists had to give the Indians land. -
The Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 was signed by King George the third. It said that no colonist can settle east of the Appalachian mountains and if any of the colonist had already settled there or if they were to settle there they wouldn't be allowed to. This upset the colonists because they had fought for that land and then had to pay taxes for the war. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act is passed by the English Parliament to offset the war debt brought on by the French and Indian War and to help pay for the expenses of running the colonies and newly acquired territories. This act increases the duties on imported sugar and other items such as textiles, coffee, wines and indigo. It doubles the duties on foreign goods reshipped from England to the colonies and also forbids the import of foreign rum and French wines. -
The Currency Act
The Currency Act said that the colonists couldn't issuing any legal paper money. This act threatens to destabilize all the colonies economy. Yet again the colonists were against the act. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act made it so that the colonists give red coats shelter and food for free and they don't have to ask for any of it. It made the colonists angry because they had to pay for the items the red coats wanted. -
The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was passed by the English Parliament. It was the first tax on the American colonies and the tax would pay for the costs of the military in America. This was the first time that colonies in America would have to pay tax to England, and not to America and thus making the colonist very upset. -
Stamp Act Congress
The Stamp Act Congress was a meeting held between October 7 and 25, 1765 in New York, consisting of representatives from some of the British colonies in North America; it was the first time that the representatives from 9 of the 18 colonies got together to form a congress. The British Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which made the colonists use stamped papers. The Congress wrote a Declaration saying that Parliament couldn't tax the colonies since the colonies didn't have representation. -
The Declatory Act
The Declatory act was almost the same as the Irish Declatory act, only some colonist noticed it because they weren't partying and other were because they had a political victory when the Stamp Act was repealed. The reason some colonists were upset was that the Irish were like slaves to the crown after that act was passed. The Declatory Act said that the Parliament had "full power and authority to make laws ... in all cases whatsoever" even though the colonists were not represented in parliament. -
Townshend Revenue Acts & The Boston Non-Importation Agreement
The Townshend Revenue Act added taxes to glass, paint, lead, oil, paper and tea. Britain wanted to make £40,000 a year to run the colonies thus bringing back all the anger the colonists had when the stamp act was imposed. The customs officials accused John Hancock of violating the trade rules. The colonists got really angry and supposedly tarred and feathered an official. Brit red coats had to come and to bring back order. The colonists boycotted luxury goods with the Boston Non-Importation Act. -
The Tea Act and Boston Tea Party
This act did not intend to create new taxes in the colonies. The Act tried to help the East India Company out of financial trouble by selling 18 million pounds of unsold tea to the colonies. Taxes would be charged on tea, due to the Townshend Act. The colonists thought that Brits were trying to earn more money and make those taxes popular. The tea was held in a harbor. This led to the Boston Tea Party. About 8000 colonists went to hear Sam Adam on Dec 16, and dumped all the tea into the harbor. -
Coercive Acts and The Boston Port Bill
The Coercive Acts also known as the Intolerable Acts by Americans, was all about teaching the Bostonians not to rebel agianst the king. Then Boston Port Bill was made which shut down all the commercial items that could go through Boston harbor until Massachusetts pays for all the tea that was spilled. -
Administration of Justice Act and The Massachusetts Government Act
The Government Act basically ended any self government in the colonies, so that a Royal Governor can assume political power. This made the colonists furious because they could no longer run their own colonies. Then to make things even worse for the colonists the Administration of Justice Act was passed. This act made it so no Brit. officials could be taken to court in the colonies. This meat that the Brit. officials could do anything they wanted. This was outrageous to the colonists. -
The Quartering Act
The Quartering Act was requiring the colonies (every single one) to provide housing, food and stuff like that. The colonists hated it because then a red coat could just march right into their house and say they were staying the night and when he got up he would like eggs benedict for breakfast. -
The Quebec Act
The law made the following:
It allowed a new governor to govern affairs in Quebec. Then they could have Catholic churches which were formerly not allowed, but then they could just as long as they swore an oath to Britian! This was outrageous to the colonists because they weren't allowed to have Catholic churches. -
New England Restraining Act
George III passed the New England Restraining act. The New England colonies weren't allowed to trade with anyone except for the British West Indies and the British themselves. This was absolutely outrageous because the Brits. had the final say on everything the colonists needed and the colonists needed the stuff they were selling so they had to buy the items for unreasonable prices because there was no other trade parteners. -
American Revolution - summary
Over the years there were a many acts that the British Parliament created to tax and reduce the colonies self-government which was outrageous to the colonists. They had boycottes and rebeled against the King. For example, they had the Boston Tea Party, and they set up their own congress. Whenever they did one of these steps, the King and the Parliament would create even more taxes and acts to take away their freedom. Ultimately this led to the American Revolution. Please read on... -
American Revolution - "Shot heard around the world"
On the 19th, 70 armed Bostoinians marched toward the red coats because they heard that they were there to take out there weaponry. The colonists got there and a shot was fired. The "Shot heard around the world" started the American Revoloution. Shortly after the shot, the war broke out and 8 Americans died and 10 were wounded. Then the British regrouped and headed for the depot on Concord. They destroyed it and then made the long retreat back to Boston. On their retreat there were 250 deaths.
