Events Leading Towards The American Revolution

Malik Gailes 5 11-1-10

Navigation Acts

• 1650-1696• The Navigation acts were passed by the British

parliament. These acts were a series of twenty-nine laws passed to control colonial trade and shipping.

• Most colonists resented the Navigations Acts. Many ignored them, and many prominent merchants took part in smuggling.

Proclamation of 1763

• 1763• It was an attempt to prevent colonial tensions

with Native Americans by establishing the western boundaries of the 13 coastal colonies

• Upset because the law forbade them from settling in the Ohio River Valley where there was fertile soil for farming, plus many colonists had already bought land west of the Appalachians and now weren't allowed to move.

Stamp Acts

• 1765• Stamp Act required Americans to pay tax on

every piece of printed paper used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and playing cards were taxed.

• They were mad and some refuse to buy items from Great Britain.

Sons Of Liberty

• 1765• The Sons of Liberty formed to protest the

stamp act and any other British act dealing with taxation without representation.

Declaratory Acts

• 1766• It stated that Britain could still pass laws affecting

the colonies. It also gave Parliament power over the colonies.

• The colonists responded by "interpreting" very loosely that this act did not give Britain the power to tax them.

Quartering Acts

• 1765• King George the Third of England passed an

act where the colonial Americans had to house the British troops that were in America.

Townshend Acts

• 1767• It taxed only imported goods that the colonist

couldn’t make themselves and they use on a regular basis.

• The colonist protested the Townshend Acts by boycotting British goods

Boston Massacre

• 1770• British soldiers fired into a crowd of innocent

bystanders five were killed; the incident was blown out of proportion by Paul Revere