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The Proclamation of 1763 was a document signed by King George III that prohibited the colonists from moving further up towards the Appalachian Mountains, and was written to protect Native American lands and people. Most colonists reacted by ignoring the proclamation, while others claimed that they were being unfairly restricted. -
The Sugar Act placed a tax on all good that were imported from Great Britain and the colonists reacted to this tax by protesting. -
The Currency Act was a law put in place by British leadership that was meant to regulate all paper currency that went to the colonies, and the colonists reacted by protesting the tax. -
The Quartering Act of 1765 was a law that forced Americas people to provide room and board to any soldiers that may appear and the colonists reacted by resisting and by denying the soldiers. -
The Stamp Act was a tax that required a stamp to be put on just about any form of document and the people had to pay to have their paper stamped. The colonists to reacted to this through boycotting British goods and pretesting against the tax. -
The Declaratory Act was Britains way of reinforcing their power over the colonies after having repealed the Stamp Act and it gave the British parliament the authority to change and make laws that the colonies had to follow. The colonists reactions to this were very mixed, as some were happy for the Stamp Act being gone, while others were worried about the power this was giving the parliament over the colonies. -
The Townshend Act was a sequence of taxes that were put on many imported goods and the colonists reacted with protests and boycotting of the goods that were being taxed. -
The Boston Massacre was a confrontation between British soldiers and people from the colonies where soldiers ended up shooting into a crowd and killing 5 people and wounding many others. The colonists reacted in anger and this resulted in fueling many people in their protesting. -
The Boston Tea Party was a protest where the colonies people, while wearing disguises, dumped 342 chests full of tea into the Boston harbor and, while some colonists felt that this was a very destructive and excessive form of protest, others supported it wholeheartedly. -
The Intolerable Acts included a series of laws that were created as a punishment on the colonies in response to the Boston Tea Party, and the colonists reacted through more protesting and boycotting, and the colonies found themselves empathizing with Massachusetts and eventually this led to the First Continental Congress.
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The Quartering Act of 1774 was the second installment of the people of America being forced to provide both a place to stray and resources for any soldier that may pass through and the colonists reacted through protests and refusal to comply, once again . -
The Quebec Act established new government and law for Quebec and expanded Quebecs territory. The colonists viewed this act as a threat and reacted to it very negatively.