1. Important Acts Leading to the American Revolution

2. Important Acts Leading to the American Revolution
Purpose
Result
Navigation Acts – All imports and exports must go through England
To Regulate trade in Colonies
Resented it at first, later ignored it – Triangular Trade
Proclamation of 1763 – cannot settle west of the Appalachian Mts.
To stop fighting between Natives and colonist
Angered colonists, later they ignored it; 10,000 British troops sent to enforce it, colonist had to pay for it
Sugar Act – tax on molasses
To stop smuggling and bribes; to get out of debt
No reaction from colonists
Stamp Act – tax on legal documents, newspapers, cards, dice
To get out of debt
Colonist tarred/feathered custom agents, boycott, Stamp Act repealed
Declaratory Act - Parliament has the right to raise taxes
To show colonists that parliament still had the right to tax them
Colonists so overjoyed about the repeal of Stamp Act they ignored the Declaratory Act

3. Important Acts Leading to the American Revolution (con’t)
Purpose
Result
Townshend Acts (1767)
Taxed glass, paper, silk, lead, and tea; set up new ways to collect taxes – started writs of assistance
Protests – signed nonimportation agreements to stop importing goods taxed by Act; British troops sent to protect tax collectors; repealed in 1770; kept tax on tea
Quartering Act (1767)
Colonist had to provide housing, candles, bedding, and beverages to British soldiers stationed in colonies
New York assembly refused to obey it; royal officials dismissed the group; Boston Massacre; Soldiers fired into a crowd of protestors
Tea Act (1773)
did away with taxes paid by British East India Company on tea, let them sell directly to colonist – meant to help them with dept
Boycotted tea; Boston Tea Party; Sons of Liberty dressed as Indians and dumped tea into Boston harbor

4. Important Acts Leading to the American Revolution (con’t)
Purpose
Result
Intolerable Acts
Punishment for MA; shut down port of Boston until the tea was paid for; forbade town meetings without permission; allowed customs officers charged with crimes to be tried in Britain; included new Quartering Act
First Continental Congress held (1774) backed MA; decided to create militias
Quebec Act (1774)
Set up a government for Canada and redrew boundaries