Proclamation of 1763 Rationale: Cost too much money to defend the colonists past the Appalachian mountains. Colonies reaction: Moved across the line anyways Rationale: Great Britain 3K miles away, could not stop/enforce the Proclamation of 1763

Sugar Act Sugar Act- cut down on smuggling, tax on sugar, and other imports. Rationale: G.B. needed money for French and Indian War debts. Colonial reaction: boycotts-did not import British goods. Rationale: boycott would hurt British merchants; did not want to pay tax.

Stamp Act This required colonists to purchase special papers for every legal document, license, newspaper, pamphlet, cards and dice. Rationale: Act to help raise revenue; help pay off the debt of the French and Indian War. Colonial reaction: Son’s of Liberty and Stamp Act Congress harassed British officials and boycotted British Goods. Rationale: Wanted the Stamp Act repealed; did not want to pay the tax.

Repeal of Stamp Act and passage of Declaratory Act Rationale: British officials were getting harassed and no new money was coming in. Declaratory Act- This act stated that Parliament had full rights to make laws in all the colonies in all cases. Colonial reactions: Rejoicing over not having to pay the Stamp Act tax; but ignored the Declaratory act. Rationale: Colonists were glad that the tax was taken away, though the Declaratory Act was just words, no authority.

Townshend Duties (Acts) An indirect tax on imported materials- glass, lead, paint, and paper. Tax on tea. Rationale: A new set of taxes to gain revenue from the Colonies in 1767 Colonists reaction: Boycott British Goods; women also got involved in the Boycotts. Rationale: “No Taxation without Representation”

Boston Massacre John Hancock's ship, the Liberty, is seized by the British for smuggling. Riots against customs agents, the Crown put 2,000 “Redcoats” in Boston. Colonists and Redcoats were competing for jobs A fist fight broke out over jobs; later a mob taunted guards at a customs house. The Colonist mob and armed British Guards grew violent, the Guards opened fired on the colonists, killing 3 and wounding 2.

Boston Massacre

Tea Act This Act helped the British East India Company, it excused them from paying taxes to parliament. Rationale: Helped the B.E.I.C. have a monopoly. Colonial reaction: The Colonists protested violently; “The Boston Tea Party.” They threw 18,000 pounds of British Tea into the Boston Harbor. Rationale: This would cut out the Colonist Tea Sellers of making money.

The Boston Tea Party

Quartering Act Food and housing for troops in homes and empty buildings. Rationale: It would lower cost for Great Britain to station troops there, and they could watch Boston. Colonies reaction: First Congressional Congress, support protest and colonial rights. Rationale: Boston was put under Marshall law, or military law.

Coercive or “Intolerable” Acts Shut down the Boston Harbor. Issued the Quartering Act- British Soldiers put in empty buildings/homes. Boston Under Marshall Law, with General Gage; the Governor. Rationale: King George III issued the Intolerable Acts in response to the Boston Tea Party. To Punish Boston. Colonial Reaction: First Congressional Congress- declaration of colonist rights.

Cont: Rationale: Defended the Colonial rights of the colonists, supported the protest in Mass. ; also declared that if the British were to use force against the colonies, the colonies would fight back.

Lexington and Concord First battle of the war Rationale: Colonists stockpiling arms and gunpowder. Adams and Hancock were in Concord, sent troops to seize it all/them. Colonial Reaction: “Common Sense”, a pamphlet, came out stating that the colonies need to declare for independence, so they could make a society free of tyranny.

Cont: Rationale: Wanted support for independence, though the Second Continental Congress offered the “Olive Branch Petition”, a peaceful settlement of the war. They were trying all options.