Understanding Colonial Unrest

An order from the British government which forbade British colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains, and which required any settlers already living west of the mountains to move back east.

• Sugar Act
• Proclamation of 1763
• Stamp Act
• Boston Massacre

A law passed by the British Parliament setting taxes on molasses and sugar imported by the colonies and creating harsher punishments for those who smuggled it.

• Navigation Acts
• Stamp Act

• Sugar Act

• Tea Act

A law passed by Parliament in 1764 that required the colonists to provide food, lodging, and supplies for the British troops in the colonies.

• Stamp Act
• Sugar Act
• Tea Act
• Quartering Act

A law passed by Parliament in 1765 that taxed printed goods, including playing cards, documents, newspapers, etc.

• Intolerable Acts
• Townshend Acts
• Sugar Act

• Stamp Act

A tax that the British Parliament passed in 1767 that was placed on leads, glass, paint and tea

• Townshend Acts
• Intolerable Acts
• Sugar Act
• Stamp Act

Incident in 1770 in which British troops fired on and killed five American colonists

• Boston Tea Party
• Boston Massacre
• Lexington and Concord
• First Continental Congress

A 1773 protest against British taxes in which Boston colonists disguised as Native Americans dumped valuable tea into Boston Harbor.

• Lexington and Concord

• First Continental Congress

• Boston Massacre

• Boston Tea Party

A series of laws set up by Parliament to punish Massachusetts for its protests against the British

• Sugar Act
• Intolerable Acts
• Boston Tea Party
• Boston Massacre

A 1774 meeting of delegates from twelve colonies in Philadelphia to discuss a response to the Intolerable Acts in which a list of common complaints was written and sent to the King.

• Stamp Act Congress
• Boston Tea Party

• First Continental Congress
• Second Continental Congress

1775 conflicts between Massachusetts colonists and British soldiers that started the Revolutionary War

• Boston Tea Party
• Battles of Lexington and Concord
• Boston Massacre

• First Continental Congress