Acts & Taxes (Pre-Revolutionary War)

A law passed in order to protect the East India Tea Company

• Boston Massacre

• Boston Tea Party

• Coercive Acts

• Tea Act

Acts passed as a punishment for the Boston Tea Party

• Stamp Act

• Coercive/Intolerable Acts

• Quartering Act

• Townshend Acts

A tax on all paper products requiring them to bear the King's stamp

• Boston Massacre

• Stamp Act

• Proclamation of 1763

• Tea Act

The Sons of Liberty dressed as Indians and dumped tea into the Boston Harbor.

• Boston Massacre

• Proclamation of 1763

• Boston Tea Party

• Tea Act

This was a tax on all British imports-- paper, lead, paint, tea, glass, etc...

• Stamp Act

• Townshend Acts

• Intolerable Acts

• Tea Act

A law that required colonists to feed and shelter British troops.

• Intolerable Acts

• Tea Act

• Townshend Acts

• Quartering Act

British soldiers killed 5 colonists after they were throwing snowballs and rocks at the redcoats.

• Boston Tea Party

• Quartering Act

• Townshend Acts

• Boston Massacre

This law forbid colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains.

• Proclamation of 1763

• Boston Massacre

• Townshend Act

• Quartering Act