Intolerable Acts

American customs ' duties so he decided to enforce taxes to earn additional earnings. The first tax taking into place was the Revenue Act better known as the Sugar Act in 1764. The duties Colonists had to pay on molasses was lowered but began to tax sugar and other goods imported to the colonies. There were also stricter penalties for smuggling. (Keene, pg. 104) This Sugar Act put into place affected the American 's beliefs in…

they published riled the colonists. After the Boston Massacre, patriot groups gained more power and made their resistance more known with later actions, such as the Boston Tea Party in reaction to the Tea Act in 1773, and eventually the First Continental Congress in response to the “Intolerable Acts” of 1774. These tensions continue to rise as trade is prohibited between the Britain and the colonies by colonial leaders in 1774, and…

So, how exactly did the British lose the American Revolution? After all, the British army with soldiers who had fought in five different continents, who had controlled the civilians in Jamaica and Indians, was the best equipped, the best trained and had the most professional people at that time. Why not the 13 colonies of North America? At a glance the primary reasons why the British lost America is that first America had home field advantage. Second, the British had a long distance from their…

In 1764 the Sugar Act was enacted to raise tax revenue in the colonies for England and it increased the duty on sugar imported from the West Indies. However, the colonists were accustomed to having their own colonial legislatures creating taxes, so they fought back when Britain tried to control them. In 1765 the Stamp Act mandated the use of stamps on certain types of commercial and legal documents. The purpose of this tax was to raise revenue for the new military force, but the colonists did…

that the colonies should help pay off the debt because they were protecting them and their land. The colonists would have been in danger had it not been for Britain their “motherland.” The first tax that they imposed on the colonists was the Sugar Act of 1764 (Ayers, Gould and Oshinsky)The tax on molasses made sugar much more costly which resulted in less sweetener for the colonies’ tea and other drinks. This begin the…

American Rebellion of 1776 The American Rebellion was an American war between Great Britain and the 13 colonies between the years of 1775-1783. Leading up to the rebellion , there was an uproar between colonists and British due to taxation, military issues, restrictions of civil liberties and religious and political ideas. These situations caused the insurgent 13 colonies to come together and revolt. Colonists felt unfairly treated and decided to take matters into their own hands. Parliament…

Although Lord Rockingham, the predecessor of Grenville, began to seek the repeal of the Stamp Act, this in no way meant the British Parliament was conceding their control. In fact, while the Stamp Act was repealed another called the Declaratory Act of 1766, gave Parliament the authority to make laws binding the American Colonies, “in all cases whatsoever.” In 1767, George III passed the Townshend Acts to collect taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper and, tea. Recognizing that tea was a…

These protests against such policies were both positive and negative towards the treatment of the colonists, take for example the enforcement of the Intolerable Act which was a rule set in part due to the Boston Tea Party event and resulted in the total shutdown of the Boston seaports. Socially, the colonists were united by their dislike towards the British Crown and their suppressive rules. In addition…

Ignorance, Protest, and Rebellion Snowball Colonial disregard of British legislation began with the Navigation Acts, a series of pieces of legislation that sought to keep the colonies from trading with anyone who wasn’t the British mainland. The passage of these acts directly caused more than one war between the Dutch and the English, leaving a very sparse fleet to actually enforce those acts. That lack of real coverage to directly enforce the England exclusive trade allowed traders and…

revolution is Navigation act of 1660 what happened in that is the British passed a series of laws.The French and Indian war that is where they had a war.The boston tea party they took tea and put it in the boston harbor. The boston massacre that is where british soldiers shot civilians.The pontiac's rebellion, the sugar act, The stamp act, The declaratory act, the Townshend act, The Intolerable act and last is the conclusion of the road of the to revolution.Paragraph 2 navigation act of 1660…