APUSH Ch. 2: Acts passed by the British that made the colonists pissed + Colonial responses (1763-1775)

*crying in red white and blue*

Proclamation of 1763

Forbade settlers from moving west to avoid conflict with tribes and control fur trade. Colonists expanded anyways and land prospectors/farmers were furious.

Mutiny (Quartering) Act of 1765

Colonies provision and maintain army, navy patrolled for smugglers, officials and customs were enforced. Manufacturing restricted. Angered Northern merchants.

Sugar Act of 1764

Enforce duty on sugar, decreased duty on molasses. New vice-admiralty courts for smugglers, prevented trading with French West Indies, control sugar market. Merchants angered

Currency Act of 1764

Colonial assemblies had to retire all paper money (so Br. could control economy). Small farmers worried bcs they couldn’t pay off debt

Stamp Act of 1765

Tax on all printed documents (newspapers, almanacs, pamphlets, wills, deeds, licences). Raising money for Br. Merchants angered, unconstitutional.

Declaratory Act

Response to Stamp Act Crisis- asserted British authority over all Colonial processes.

Townshend Duties of 1767

Charles Townshend pass, dealing with opposition to Quartering Act in Mass.+NY. Disbanded NY Assembly, taxed goods imported from England to the colonies, and implemented new customs admissions.

Tea Act of 1773

Gave the British East India Company a monopoly on tea, exported tea directly to colonies without taxes. Angered merchants and those who thought it was uncontstitutional

Coercive (Intolerable) Acts of 1774

George III done, after Boston Tea Party. Closed Boston port, reduced self-government, permitted royal officers to be tried in England, and encouraged the Quartering Act. Made MAss. a martyr

Quebec Act of 1774

Extended Quebec to include Fr. Communities between Ohio and mass. rivers, political rights to Roman Catholics, recognized Roman Catholic legality. Seen as a threat to Angelicanism.

Stamp Act Congress 1765

James Otis of Mass. called for inter Colonial action, 9 met in NY, complain to Parliament

Sons and Daughters of Liberty

Revolts in 1765, burn houses like Thomas Hutchinson, write dissident plays (Mercy Otis Warren) and organize boycotts

Boston Massacre 1770

Dockworkers and Liberty boys pelt custom house with rocks and snowballs. Thomas Preston organized men, somebody shot, 5 dead (Crispus Attucks) propaganda

Committees of Correspondence 1770s

Samuel Adams proposed a way to publicize grievances in 1772. Colonies followed suit

Boston Tea Party 1773

Part of tea boycott- 150 men dressed up as Mohawks boarded teaships and threw overboard. Led to coercive acts