Colonial reaction to these taxes was the same as to the Sugar Act and Stamp Act, and Britain eventually repealed all the taxes except the one on tea. In response to the sometimes violent protests by the American colonists, Great Britain sent more troops to the colonies. In addition, the N...
The British authorities were not trying to oppress the colonists and regarded the stamp tax as entirely reasonable; even Benjamin Franklin, then a colonial agent in London, gave his grudging acquiescence to the plan. Despite parliamentary intentions, colonial reaction was adverse and immediate. The ...
For example, the Royal Proclamation of 1763restricted the colonists from settling new land.The Currency Act of 1764 made it illegal to printpaper money in the colonies. The Quartering Actof 1765 forced the colonists to provide food andhousing for the royal soldiers. The Stamp Act of1765 taxed...
The Yamasee War was a conflict in 1715–16 between Indigenous Americans, mainly the Yamasee, and British colonists in the southeastern area of South Carolina which resulted in the collapse of Indigenous power in that area.
Sugar Act (1764) Stamp Act of 1765, the British asserted power to tax without representation; foiled by bold American reaction First Quartering Act (1765) Declaratory Act (1766) Townshend Acts (1767), more taxes imposed because the British insisted they could tax the Americans any time and any...
Though it did not have a direct effect on the thirteen colonies, the Quebec Act was considered part of the Intolerable Acts by the American colonists. Intended to ensure the loyalty of the king's Canadian subjects, the act greatly enlarged Quebec's borders and allowed the free practice of th...
taxation rather than for it. Radicals even argued that the King had actually violated his coronation oath in his treatment of the colonists, and thereby broken the original contract somewhat in the sense that James II had.20For Grenville it was the colonists who were the contract breakers, a ...
The spirit which tore down the aisles of St Begulus, and was revived in England in a reaction against music, painting, and poetry, the Pilgrim Fathers bore with them in the "Mayflower," and planted across the seas. The life of the early colonists left no leisure for refinement. They ...
11 whipping, the pillory or stocks,12 the ducking stool or the wearing of scolds' bridles;13 to these might be added the vernacular refinements of tarring and feathering and riding out of town on a rail, both of which were notoriously employed by American colonists against Tory sympathizers....
Because the colonies lacked elected representation in the governing British Parliament many colonists considered the laws to be illegitimate and a violation of their rights as Englishmen. In 1772, Patriot groups began to create committees of correspondence, which would lead to their own Provincial ...