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The Proclamation of 1763 prohibited expansions to western territories, the lands west of the Apalachin mountains, so that they are reserved for Native American purposes. The proclamation was introduced due to British fear that they may initiate a series of Indian Wars and to assure they had rule over the existing colonies. The act was sloppily enforced, and hence the Colonists just took it as the British not allowing indulgence to their freedoms, but they did send soldiers. -
With the sentiments that the colonists needed to pay for the defense they've been given, the British imposed the Sugar Act, outlawing the importation of foreign rum, cutting the duty of molasses, and levying a tax on wines, silks, coffee, and some luxury items. They did this with the aspirations that instead of exporting French and Dutch molasses they would go for New England rum. In response the Colonial lawyers introduced the phrase "No Taxation Without Representation", joining the protest. -
The Currency Act deprived the colonies from establishing any form of paper currency and ordered that British merchants be paid with British currency. The act came made in on paper so that the British could make their attempts on controlling the colonial economy. -
All for a wish to be repaid by the colonies for the protection they provide, although really just desiring to leave their penurious state after previous wars, the British imposed the Stamp Act. The Stamp Act was the levying of a tax upon newspapers, legal documents, playing cards, dice, almanacs, and pamphlets. In response, merchants formed nonimportation associations, prominent men formed violent secret organizations knows as The Sons of Liberty, and the Stamp Act Congress was assembled. -
Since protection services increased in price, the British Parliament passed the Quartering Act which demanded British Soldiers be provided shelter and food in unoccupied buildings. In response the New York Assembly and others would resist. -
In response to the idea of No Taxation Without Representation in the colonies, the British decided to impose the Declaratory Acts which gave them right to make laws for the colonies. As with many of the others acts the colonists protested and boycotted goods. -
With constant complain in Great Britian about their high taxes and aspirations to support colonial officials, Charles Townshend decided to impose more taxes on the colonists to reduce taxes on Englishmen and raise revenue to support colonial officials. The Townshend Act imposed duties on colonially imported paper, glass, lead, and tea, by the logic that placing taxes on importations from the colony is legal unlike previous internal taxes. In response, colonists used local products. -
Stationed in Boston, British troops were being taunted commencing with simple snowball throwing until ordered for open fire, killing 5. In response, the assessment of Great Britian's tyranny was gossiped and two soldiers were acquitted with the rest defended by John Adams efforts. -
In response to most of the tea in colonies being illegally smuggled, the East Indian Company threatened to eliminate independent colonial merchants, but were forced to resign except for defying force int he Boston harbor where they planned to land cargoes. By fear that their fellow countrymen would not regard principles and actually buy the tea and pay its tax, rebels led by Samual Adams dressed up as Mohawk Indians boarded three ships and dumped 342 chests of tea cargo. -
These were the series of events serving as punishment to colonists for the Boston Tea Party. The acts commenced with the Boston port bill, closing all docks until tea was paid off. Then followed a serious of acts restricting town meetings, the Quartering act of 1774, and the Quebec Act. In response the colonists decided to hold a meeting with delegates known as the First Continental Congress to discuss the unhappy state of the colonies, deciding to oppose the Intolerable Acts. -
As a constituent for the response the British Parliament gave for the Boston Tea Party, the intolerable acts, the Quartering acts were modified for Massachusetts so if necessary quartering of soldiers will be done in private homes. In response the sister colonies of Massachusetts aided it in its problems by rally.