2. Proclamation of 1763

7. Excerpt from Stamp Act

8. “Our Colonies must be the biggest Beggars in the World, if such small Duties (taxes) appear to be intolerable burdens in their eyes.”
---British Newspaper

9. Sugar Act

10. Townsend Acts/Duties 1767

11. Colonists took other steps to change the law.
They joined together to boycott British goods.
The boycott reduced British trade by 14% in the colonies and by 1766 Parliament repealed (canceled) the stamp act.

13. The Quartering Act made the colonists upset in two ways:
First, housing and supplying the soldiers was costly.
Second, soldiers essentially possessed the ability to search anyone's home whenever they pleased.
Colonists lost their sense of rights over their own property.

14. Quartering Act

16. Alternate Boston Tea Part Slide (NEW 2016)

17. Intolerable Acts