British Taxes How Parliament & the King Turned the Colonies Away from British Pride and Towards Revolution

Setting the Stage 1651 Navigation Acts - A series of laws restricting colonial trade 1696 Board of Trade & Plantations - An advisory body set up to oversee colonial trade; Had no power

The First Acts 1733 Molasses Act - Parliament taxed all sugar imports from the West Indies 1763 Proclamation - Banned all colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains 1764 Sugar Act - Lowered tax on imported sugar & provided for customs officers

The Second Acts 1764 Currency Act 1765 Quartering Act - Prevented colonists from using colonial money to pay debts and completely outlawed paper money in the colonies 1765 Quartering Act - British made the colonies pay all the money towards housing British soldiers

1765 Stamp Act & Pope’s Day George Grenville

The Loyal Nine & John Hancock The Loyal Nine Burning Andrew Oliver’s effigy

The Third Acts 1766 Declaratory Act 1767 Townshend Acts - Claimed that Parliament had the right to govern the colonies 1767 Townshend Acts - Sweeping taxes that placed tariffs on glass, lead, paint, paper and tea

Committees of Correspondence 1st - 1764 - BOSTON; In response to the Currency Act 2nd – 1765 - NEW YORK; In response to the Stamp Act 3rd – 1773 - VIRGINIA; Proposal for INTER-Colonial Correspondence

Boston Massacre The British officer in charge, Capt. Thomas Preston, was arrested for manslaughter Preston, along with eight of his men, were all later acquitted

The Boston Tea Party “If Hutchinson will not send tea back to England, perhaps we can brew a pot of it especially for him!" ~ Samuel Adams -- December 16, 1773

The Final Acts 1774 Intolerable Acts - Closed Boston Harbor and imposed martial law on Boston 1774 Quebec Act - Seen as a model for British colonial administration & loss of rights

Continental Congress 1st Congress published the SUFFOLK RESOLVES driving us closer to war 2nd Congress published the OLIVE BRANCH PETITION to try and pull us back