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Navigation Acts
The Navigation Acts were laws passed by England. They regulated the colonies with the trade and shipped the goods to the English. -
Molasses Act
A British law passed in 1733 taxed molasses, rum, and sugar imported into the North American colonies from non-British countries. -
Fort Necessity
George Washington was defeated, and this happened during the French and Indian War that was decades ago. -
French and Indian war
it started in 1756 and ended in 1763. In 1758, the British won a key victory at Fort Louisburg1758 New Englanders and the British captured Ft. Frontenac Lake Ontario in 1758, the British took Ft. Duquesne. In 1759 Quebec capital of New France fell to British hands 1760 Montreal felll to British forces 1763 Treaty of Paris - France lost land claims in North America. -
Sugar act
In 1764, Parliament passed the Sugar Act on the colonists. An act can be looked at as a synonym for tax. This new tax lowered the tax on molasses imported to the colonies. The idea was that a lower tax Would lower the price and encourage more people to buy. -
Townshend act
The Townshend Acts was an EXTERNAL TAX (tax on imported goods)A tax on important goods -Glass-lead-paper-tea-paint- -
The Stamp Act
In 1765 Parliament passed the Stamp Act
A small tax on all printed materials consider the following material Newspaper
Wills
Playing cards
Documents
stuff like this all got taxed -
Declaratory act
The repeal of the Stamp Act did not mean that Great Britain was surrendering any control over its colonies. The Declaratory Act, passed by Parliament on the same day the Stamp Act was repealed, stated that Parliament could make laws binding the American colonies -
intolerable act
THE INTOLERABLE ACTS
When news of the Boston Tea Party reached London George stated We must either master them or leave them to themselves In response to the Boston Tea Party the parliament passed the Coercive Acts Coercive Acts 1774 -
The Quartering Act
The Quartering Act permitted the requirement of unoccupied buildings at first to house British troops -
paul revere ride
paul revere's midnight ride was an alert given to minutemen in the Province of Massachusetts Bay by local Patriots on the night of April 8th, 1775, warning them of the approach of British Army troops