9 Acts of Parliament

Navigation Acts

benefitted GB’s economy by requiring the 13 colonies’ materials and channeling all trade through England

1. Colonies couldn’t trade with others

   smuggling

Proclamation Line

Banned colonists from settling west of the Appalachians

1. USA was mad because excessive move of power and were treated like nothing/disrespected

   illegally went on land

Sugar Act

Taxes molasses and sugar

Colonists accused of smuggling had trial in British military court instead of a colonial court

Writs of Assistance were blank search warrants that let British search any house

No taxation without representation

Quartering Act

Required colonists to give British troops food and shelter

The intrusion of over 10,000 British soldiers in the colonies lead to resentment and anger

Banned this act with Amendment 3 in BOR

Stamp Act

Required all printed materials to be stamped

EXAMPLES

Newspapers, legal documents, dice, playing cards, college diplomas

Declaratory Act

Stated Britain has absolute rule/tax over colonies and…

Parliament had the power to close colonial governments

Colonial legislatures shuttered were Town Hall meetings and House of Burgesses

Townshend Acts

Taxed paper, lead, paint, glass and tea

Boycott

Daughters of Liberty were a group that made goods that were being taxed

Sons of Liberty were groups of American men tbat organized boycotts and protests.

Coercive Acts

Called Intolerable Acts

1. Closed the harbor of Boston to shipping/trade

2. Placed MA under military rule which is called martial law

3. All town hall meetings were suspended

4. British soldiers were immune to colonial laws.

   Patrick Henry said “Give me liberty or give me death”

   1st Continental Congress meets in September 1774

Acting like BM was a Massacre

G.B. soldiers killed 5 people from colonial mob

Propaganda

Committees of Correspondence were groups that passed news/info about British to the Colonies.

Sam Adam’s organized SOL, COC, and BTP

Colonists and SOL disguised as Indians dumped tea chests into Boston Harbor