Britain S Problems

Britain’s Problems / Britain’s Solutions / Colonists’ Responses
1.  Preventing Native American uprisings / Proclamation of 1763
Forbid settlement west of the Appalachians Mountains. / Colonists were upset and many ignored the law
2.  Keeping peace in the American colonies / Quartering Act (1765)
Required colonists to provide housing and supplies to British soldiers. / Colonists were upset and protested.
3.  Paying for War debts / Sugar Act (1764)
A tax on sugar and molasses brought into the colonies from Britain / Colonists began to smuggle molasses from the French colonies and not pay the tax.
Currency Act ( 1764)
Forbid colonies from issuing and printing their own paper money. / Colonists were upset, because it made it difficult for merchants to do business.
Stamp Act (1765)
Required a special stamp on all documents / Colonists boycotted British goods. They protested and some tarred and feathered colonial officials
Townshend Acts (1767)
Tax on glass, paint, lead, paper, and tea. / Colonists boycotted and protested. Protests led to the Boston Massacre.
Tea Act (1773)
Continued the tax on tea and gave a monopoly to the British East India Company / Protest led to the Boston Tea Party.
4.  Maintaining power over the American colonies / Intolerable Acts (1774)
·  Known as the Coercive Acts.
·  Closed the port of Boston.
·  Required colonists to provide housing to soldiers sent to MA.
·  Revoked the colonial charter. / ·  United the 13 Colonies: Many colonies sent money and supplies to Boston.
·  Delegates organized the 1st Continental Congress.
Declaratory Act (1766)
Britain said it had supreme control over the colonies and the right to make laws. / Colonists ignored the law.