Lesson Plan: Parliament Acts and Colonial
Responses Wake Up King George! |
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Legislation |
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Provisions |
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Colonial Reaction |
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Sugar Act |
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April 5, 1764 |
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Revised duties on sugar, coffee, tea,
wine, other imports; expanded jurisdiction of vice-admiralty courts |
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Several assemblies protest taxation for
revenue. |
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Stamp Act |
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March 22, 1765;
Repealed March 18, 1766 |
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Printed documents (deeds, newspapers,
marriage licenses, etc.) issued only on special stamped paper purchased
from stamp distributors |
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Riots in cities; collectors forced to
resign; Stamp Act Congress (October 1765) |
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Quartering Act |
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May 1765 |
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Colonists must supply British troops
with housing, other items (candles, firewood, etc.) |
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Protest in assemblies; New York Assembly
punished for failure to comply, 1767 |
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Declaratory Act |
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March 18, 1766 |
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Parliament declares its sovereignty over
the colonies “in all cases whatsoever” |
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Ignored in celebration over repeal of
the Stamp Act |
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Townshend
Revenue Acts |
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June 26, 29, July 2, 1767; all repealed;
except duty on tea, March 1770 |
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New duties on glass, lead, paper, paints,
tea; customs collections tightened in America |
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Non-importation of British goods; assemblies
protest; newspapers attack British policy |
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Tea Act |
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May 10, 1773 |
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Parliament gives East India Company right
to sell tea directly to Americans; some duties on tea reduced |
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Protests against favoritism shown to
monopolistic company; tea destroyed in Boston (December 16, 1773) |
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Coercive Acts (Intolerable
Acts) |
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March-June 1774 |
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Closes port of Boston; restructures
Massachusetts government; restricts town meetings; troops quartered in
Boston; British officials accused of crimes sent to England or Canada for
trial |
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Boycott of British goods; First Continental
Congress convenes (September 1774) |
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Prohibitory Act |
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December 22, 1775 |
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Declares British intention to coerce
Americans into submission; embargo on American goods; American ships seized |
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Drives Continental Congress closer to
decision for independence |
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Parliament
Acts and Colonial Responses is adapted from Divine, Robert A., T.H. Breen,
George M. Fredrickson, and R. Hal Williams. The American Story. New York:
Longman, 2002, 161. |
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