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·The Proclamation of 1763 was issued 

October 7, 1763, by King George III 

following Great Britain's acquisition of 

French territory in North America after 

the end of the French and Indian War. 

·The purpose of the proclamation was to 

organize Great Britain's new North 

American empire.

·To stabilize relations with Native North 

Americans through regulation of trade, 

settlement, and land purchases on the 

western frontier.

· These Quartering Acts ordered the local governments of the 

American colonies to provide housing and provisions for British 

soldiers.

·Most colonies had supplied provisions during the war, but the 

issue was disputed in peacetime. The result was the Quartering 

Act of 1765, which went far beyond what Gage had requested. 

The colonies disputed the legality of this Act since it seemed to 

violate the Bill of Rights which forbid taxation without 

representation and the raising or keeping of a standing army 

without the consent of Parliament. 

·A second Quartering Act was passed on June 2, 1774, as part 

of a group of laws that came to be known as the Intolerable 

Acts. The acts were designed to restore imperial control over 

the American colonies. While several of the acts dealt 

specifically with the Province of Massachusetts Bay, the new 

Quartering Act applied to all of the colonies.

·The Stamp Act of 1765 was a direct tax imposed by the 

British Parliament specifically on the colonies of British 

America. 

·Required that many printed materials in the colonies be 

produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an 

embossed revenue stamp.   (legal documents, magazines, 

newspapers, many other types of paper used throughout the 

colonies)the stamp tax had to be paid in valid British currency.

·The purpose of the tax was to help pay for troops stationed in 

North America after the British victory in the Seven Years War. 

The British government felt that the colonies were the primary 

beneficiaries of this military presence, and should pay at least 

a portion of the expense.

·Many colonists considered it a violation of their rights as 

Englishmen to be taxed without their consent.

·Very soon all stamp tax distributors were intimidated into 

resigning their commissions, and the tax was never effectively 

collected.Opposition to the Stamp Act was not limited to the 

colonies.

·The Act was repealed on March 18.

·The Townshend Acts were a series of laws passed 

beginning in 1767 by the Parliament of Great Britain 

relating to the British colonies in North America. 

·Named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the 

Exchequer, who proposed the program.

·To raise revenue in the colonies to pay the salaries of 

governors and judges so that they would be 

independent of colonial rule 

·To create a more effective means of enforcing 

compliance with trade regulations

·The Townshend Acts were met with resistance in the 

colonies, prompting the occupation of Boston by British 

troops in 1768, which eventually resulted in the Boston 

Massacre of 1770.

·The Boston Massacre, called the Boston Riot 

by the English, was an incident on March 5, 

1770, in which British redcoats killed five 

civilian men. 

·British troops had been stationed in Boston 

since 1768 in order to protect and support 

crown-appointed colonial officials attempting 

to enforce unpopular Parliamentary 

legislation. 

·Amid ongoing tense relations between the 

population and the soldiers, a mob formed 

around a British sentry, who was subjected to 

verbal abuse and harassment. 

·The Tea Act was an Act of the Parliament of Great 

Britain. Its principal overt objective was to reduce the 

massive surplus of tea held by the financially troubled 

British East India Company in its London warehouses. 

·A related objective was to undercut the price of tea 

smuggled into Britain's North American colonies. This 

was supposed to convince the colonists to purchase 

Company tea on which the Townshend duties were paid. 

·The act granted the Company the right to directly ship 

its tea to North America and the right to the duty-free 

export of tea from Britain, although the tax imposed by 

the Townshend Acts and collected in the colonies 

remained in force. It received the royal assent on May 

10, 1773.

·The Boston Tea Party was a direct action by 

colonists in Boston, a town in the British 

colony of Massachusetts, against the British 

government and the monopolistic East India 

Company that controlled all the tea imported 

into the colonies. 

·On December 16, 1773, after officials in 

Boston refused to return three shiploads of 

taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists 

boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by 

throwing it into Boston Harbor. 

·The incident remains an iconic event of 

American history, and other political protests 

often refer to it.

·The Intolerable Acts are names used to describe a 

series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 

relating to Britain's colonies in North America. 

·Triggered outrage and resistance in the Thirteen 

Colonies that later became the United States, and were 

important developments in the growth of the American 

Revolution.

·Four of the acts were issued in direct response to the 

Boston Tea Party of December 1773 

·The British Parliament hoped these punitive measures 

would, by making an example of Massachusetts, reverse 

the trend of colonial resistance to parliamentary 

authority that had begun with the 1765 Stamp Act. 

·A fifth act, the Quebec Act, enlarged the boundaries of 

what was then the Province of Quebec and instituted 

reforms generally favorable to the French Catholic 

inhabitants of the region.

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