Intolerable Acts

received. The colonies believed the acts with taxation were unfair because their own legislation had the authority to tax them. Because of the Boston Tea Party, which was where the British dumped out tea as a way of protesting in Boston, the British government became furious at the colonists. The colonial leaders wanted to defend their self government and liberty. The British government launched the Intolerable Acts, punishment laws passed in 1774. These acts were meant to punish the colonists…

be sold by their merchants. Colonists who bought smuggled tea would have to pay a tax now. Colonists and merchants were enraged by this. Intolerable Acts After the Boston Tea Party which enraged Britain. The Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts in 1774. These were series of laws which punished the Massachusetts colony and be a warning to others. One act closed the port of Boston until the colonists payed for the destroyed tea. Boston Massacre A battle between British soldiers and…

British troops occupied the Boston in 1768 due to political unrest in the colonies as a result of the Townshend Act. This act placed a tax on tea, glass, lead, paper and paint. Colonists were outraged at the taxation and rallied themselves against the British. On March 5, 1770, a group of colonists began to harass British troops guarding the customs house because they were angry with the fact that they were being treated like children by the British. One the soldier's gun fired on accident an…

extremely to the King rebolting to the colonists ' '. All of these had had a high significance to the King of England revolting against the colonists. The French and Indian War, The Proclamation of 1763, Sugar Tea Act, Stamp Act,Townshend Act, Boston Massacre,Boston Tea Party and Intolerable Acts. The Boston Massacre is the most important to the cause of The American Revolution. To began at my first importance would be the Boston Massacre. The Boston Massacre was the most important…

during the war for nothing! The Stamp Act The stamp act was a solution to pay off the French and Indian war. Everything in Great Britain was already taxed, but the Grenville made a new act. The act was called the stamp act, for every piece of paper the colonist they had to buy a stamp. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. The colonist disagreed with the act and the Stamp Act as a violation. The…

the Navigation act of 1660. Then there was the French and Indian War and Pontiac’s Rebellion. Next came the Sugar Act,the Stamp Act,and the Townshend Act. Finally,came the Boston Massacre which;therefore,led to the Intolerable acts. All of these events led the colonists on a road to revolution.Paragraph 2 Navigation Act of 1660 The Navigation acts of 1660 started making colonists angry. It started between 1650 and 1696 that Parliament passed a set of Navigation Acts. It limited…

multiple acts that made it hard on the colonist. The colonist did not like this and said it was “taxation without representation”. Many ask why taxes could cause such anger and rebellions. In my opinion they had a right to be angry take a look at some of these acts and taxes places on the colonist and what they did about it. The British placed many taxes and Acts on the colonists such as the Sugar Act, the Quartering Act, the Tea Act and the Intolerable Act. In 1764 the King passed an act…

the third section is the one in which they declare that the colonies don’t want anything to do with the British monarchy anymore, and the delegates sign their names marking treason against the British King called George III. The applied taxed, and acts…

the causes of the American Revolution. This war between Britain and France ended with the victorious British deeply in debt. In order to pay off this debt, taxes were imposed on the colonies without their consent. Several tax acts such as the Stamp Act and the Townshend Act were passed in an attempt to pay for the war. This made the colonists angry as they were being taxed by a government that was so distant from them. They also protested against "taxation without representation."…

Quebec Act The Quebec Act made Quebec a place where Catholics could freely worship and it restored the use of French civil law for matters of private law. The reaction of Canadians was mixed and the land-owning were relatively happy about the changes, though most of the populace resented their loss of freedoms. 3. Sugar Act The sugar act attempted to induce importers to buy molasses from Britain and it also further restricted trading between the colonies and other nations. The sugar act put a…