1. Unspeakable Acts The Road to Revolution

2. The Proclamation of 1763 Passed in 1763
Prohibited governors from granting land beyond the headwaters of rivers flowing into the Atlantic
bans colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains

3. Potential Effects and reactions
Colonists: Can't expand West. Restricts their ability to self-govern. Restricts trade to the West. Restricts land availability. Protected from Native attacks.
Native Americans: Their lands protected from encroaching colonists. Protects people from unnecessary attacks by colonists.
African Americans: Kept from being separated further from families.
Women: Kept from braving the wilderness.
Some colonists move West despite the law. Some colonists feel they should be able to expand and see the law as a threatening interference by the crown

4. Stamp Act (1765, repealed 1766) What it Did:
Printed documents (deeds, newspapers, marriage licenses, etc.) issued only on special stamped paper purchased from stamp distributors

5. Potential effects Colonists: Questions self-taxing. Inconvenient.
Threatened liberty.
Reached into the lives of ordinary people, not just merchants and businesses.
Increased fear of unemployment and poverty.
Women: Taxed everyday items women may have bought.

6. reactions Riots in cities Collectors forced to resign
Stamp Act Congress (October 1765)
Virginia Resolves: "Give me liberty or give me death!"
Boycott British goods
reactions

7. Quartering act (1765) Potential Effects What It Did
Colonists: Financial responsibility for troops. Must provide space. Possibly make sacrifices of the family for the sake of the soldier.
Native Americans: Greater military presence.
African Americans: Subject to demands of soldiers in addition to masters.
Women: Must work to support another member of the household.
Colonists must supply British troops with housing, other items (candles, firewood, etc.)

8. reactions
Protest in assemblies
New York Assembly punished for failure to comply, 1767

9. Coercive acts (intolerable acts, 1774)
What It Did
Potential Effects
Closes port of Boston
Restructures Massachusetts government
Restricts town meetings
Troops quartered in Boston
British officials accused of crimes sent to England or Canada for trial
Colonists:
Restricted self-government.
Imposed troops on families.
Restricts business and travel.
Undermined colonial authority to try officials in their own courts.

10. reactions Boycott of British goods
First Continental Congress convenes (September 1774)

11. Prohibitory act (1775) What It Did Potential Effects
Colonists: Blocked from trade. Ships seized.
Native Americans: Drawn closer to possibility of another war in their backyard.
African Americans: Urged to take up arms against masters.
Women: Husbands out of work if they worked on ships seized. Livelihood threatened.
Declares British intention to coerce Americans into submission
Embargo on American goods
Americans ships seized

12. reactions
Drives Continental Congress closer to decision for independence