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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 1765 Stamp Act & Pope’s Day
George Grenville

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

7. 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

8. Committees of Correspondence
1st
- 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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