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===Navigation Acts: A series of commercial restrictions passed by Parliament intended to regulate colonial commerce in such a way as to favor England's accumulation of wealth. === - The English passed this act to eliminate the Dutch from trading with the Colonists. - Navigation Act passed in 1660 stated that no ship could trade in the colonies unles it had been constructed in either England or America and carried a crew that was at least 75% English (Colonists being counted as English). - Certain enumerated goods that were not produced in England such as tobacco, sugar, indigo, cotton, dyewoods, and ginger could be transported from the colonies only to an English or another colonial port. - Molasses and rice were added to the enumerated goods list in 1704. - Second Navigation Act known as Staples Act was passed starting that with a few noted exceptions, nothing could be imported into America unless it had first been transshipped through England. During the 1660s, the Colonists had very little enthusiasm for the new regulations listed above. For example, the collection of English customs on tobacco greatly reduced the colonial planters' profits. Importantly, the elimination of Dutch from trading meant that the Colonists had to sell their crops at lower prices. Things like these didn't benefit the colonists but brought harm. For the plantations in Virginia, the small planters were affected greatly because they were "least" able to absorb increased production costs. Finally, the colonists were unhappy because they preferred to trade with the Dutch especially tea because it was cheaper and had better taste, but England banned this benefit from colonists by establishing this act. = =

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= = = = ===Sugar Act: Revised duties on sugar, coffee, tea, wine, other imports; expanded jurisdiction of vice-admiralty courts. === - Parliament "expected" the colonies to generate revenue. - Purpose of this act was to discourage any actions that prevented the Navigation Acts from being profitable.

**Due to Britain's debt that they needed to pay off, the colonies were "forced" to follow this new act that didn't benefit them at all. Also, the reasons for the Sugar Act was to help to maintain the army according to Grenville's calculations. Then, for Navigation Acts, it wasn't very favorable among the Colonists and there were already illegal actions taking place regarding this, so it proves that this wouldn't do much to enforce the Navigation Acts. **

= = ===Stamp Act: Printed documents issued only on special stamped paper purchased from stamp distributors. === - Chancellor of the exchequer announced this plan to get money out of Americans annually. - Majority of the House of Commons assumed that Parliament possessed the right to tax the colonists.

**This was the one of greatest dissatisfaction that the Colonists had in the early times. Taxation without representation became very popular and Patrick Henry made a speech stating that this act was illegal, unconstitutional, unjust, and would cause destruction of liberty. Also, the Stamp Act Congress was formed drafting petitions to the king and Parliament about the Colonists' opinion on this matter. With such justifications, British should have done something more clever in the beginning rather than enforce the ideas that they agreed upon. Their lack of consideration for the Colonists' stance of the situation was another fact, and from this act, resistance begins to develop to be greater. **

= = ===Quartering Act: Colonists must supply British troops with housing, and other items. === - Colonists were "required" to house soldiers in barracks, taverns, and vacant buildings and to provide the army with firewood, candles, beer, and other items. - Townshend induced Parliament to order the governor of New York to veto all bills passed by that colony's assembly until it supplied resident British troops in accordance with the Quartering Act.

**The Colonists showed no willingness to this act and the Sons of Liberty organized boycotting of British goods again. This act was categorized under taxation without representation and colonists refused to pay anything in New York. Mainly, this act was made by Townshend to guarantee the revenue that he would earn for Britain each year from the Colonists. His belief that without tough enforcements, the revenues would not be raised up to the promised amount created the basis for this act. In general, British only thought of tough and harsh enforcements to pass to the Colonists to fix their problems. Considering the fact that these acts are being passed to the Colonies because of what they've done, the act was too much for the Colonists in their view. **

= = ===Townshend Acts: New duties on glass, paper, lead, paints, tea' customs collections tightened in America. === - This act turned out to be a grab bag of duties on American imports of paper, glass, plaint, lead, and tea. - House of Commons were pleased with Townshend's plan so when this act was passed, they lowered the English land taxes.

Townshend was known to be an impetuous man whose mouth often outran his mind. A man like Townshend was in the chancellor position automatically bringing corruption between the British and the Colonists. Also, the British lowering their land tax, but raising the tax in American was very unjust. America and Britain are under the same laws and government but there is inequality. With the same political system, everyone should pay equal taxes no matter the circumstance because they're meant to be united being governed with the same system. Britain having so many wars were the need to collect money to pay off the debt, and because of these wars, the colonies had suffered as well. Being inconsiderate of the colonies' situation, the British enforced this series of act making the Colonists automatically rebel with outrage.

= = ===<span style="color: #ff5300; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Tea Act: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Parliament gives East India Company right to sell tea directly to Americans; some duties on tea reduced. === - Parliament wanted to save one of Britain's largest businesses. the East India Company from bankruptcy. - Tea was subject to heavy duties. - Act threatened to undercut powerful colonial merchants who did a good business trading in smuggled Dutch tea.

First of all, the trading limit given to the Colonists by the British was wrong. Due to this trading limit, the Colonists had to "smuggle" Dutch tea. Also, the Colonists were not free to make their own decisions on what products they wanted to purchase because the British only allowed trading with them and not others. This brought harm to colonial merchants who did business in smuggling Dutch tea, and led to protests by the Colonists known as the Boston Tea Party. If the colonists had some rights or voice in their decision in what to purchase and trade, the tea rebellion may not have happened. Lastly, after facing rebellions such as boycott and protests, the British should have realized the American reaction. It's about time that the Parliament consider other options to pass act to the colonies to save the tea company. This proves that even though the British are in charge of the Colonists, they don't "care" or "show interest" to maintain peace.

=<span style="color: #ff5300; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> = ===<span style="color: #ff5300; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Coercive Acts: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">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. === - Closed the port of Boston until the city fully compensated the East India Company for the lost tea. - Restructured the Massachusetts government by transforming the upper house from an elective to an appointed body and restricting the number of legal town meetings to one a year. - Allowed the royal governor to transfer British officials arrested for offenses committed in the line of duty to England, where there was little likelihood they would be convicted. - Authorized the army to quarter troops wherever they were needed, even if this required the compulsory requisition of uninhibited private buildings.

When this act was passed in response to Boston Tea Party, the British passed the series of acts known as coercive acts. This act was taken as a procedure to imprison America by the colonists. Since Britain is the mother nation, they should know how to take care of their child (America). Punishments may be necessary from time to time, but the British lacks in strategy to govern their colonies properly. The continuous series of harsh acts passed against the colonists have only brought violence like protests, rebellions, and etc. Seeing these results, why doesn't the British think of different strategies to bring proper order? Basically, the continuous acts that were passed against the colonists kept on adding up to greater anger resulting in something much greater and violent.

=<span style="color: #ff5300; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> = ===<span style="color: #ff5300; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Prohibitory Act: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Declares British intention to coerce Americans into submission; embargo on American goods; American ships seized. === - Declared war on American commerce. - British navy blockaded the ports and seized American ships on the high seas. - Lord North hired German mercenaries to put down the rebellion.

The action of this act led one step closer to American Revolution. Due to the continuing growth of issues between Britain, the Continental Congress started to get closer to making the decision of declaring independence. The willingness on both sides began to decrease because of their opposing actions. However, British are the ones that started the opposing actions. The British were the ones who passed all the act that couldn't satisfy the colonists causing the colonies to act against it. Finally, the British should have been smart enough to know that the prohibitory act wouldn't have any effect on colonists because of their strong will and belief in liberty.

=<span style="color: #ff5300; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> = ===<span style="color: #ff5300; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Boston Massacre: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">A violent confrontation between British troops and a Boston mob on March 5, 1770. five citizens were killed when the troops fired into the crowd. The incident inflamed anti-British sentiment in Massachusetts. === - Young boys threw rocks and snowballs at soldiers in a small, isolated patrol outside the offices of the hated customs commissioners in King Street. - The mob of Colonists began to grow, so the soldiers panicked starting to shoot.

**When the armies were sent to U.S., the Colonists questioned the meaning of this, but the pamphleteers responded that the army had come to take away their liberties, and collect illegal revenues. The Americans also noticed the pattern of tyranny from years of experience knowing that the soldiers' actions were type of tyranny that seemed obvious. Due to this, the Colonists' anger built up causing them to throw snowballs at the soldiers causing violent action. Basically, Britain had set up the whole act of tyranny to bring up anger to the Colonists to cause this adding another fault that is slowly being led to a revolution. **

<span style="color: #ff5300; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> ===<span style="color: #ff5300; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Proclamation of 1763: Prohibited governors from granting land beyond the headwaters of river flowing into the Atlantic.=== - British regarded the Indians as little more than a nuisance. - Paxton Boys murdered Christian Indians, women, and children near Lancaster, Pennsylvania. - Pontiac attacked Detroit and other Indians harassed the Pennsylvania and Virginia frontiers. - British failed to defend exposed colonial settlements during Pontiac's Rebellion costing several thousand lives.

The British fault began to start at this point. Having defeated French in the Seven Years' War, it makes no sense that they couldn't defend the colonies against a small, brief rebellion caused by Pontiac. This cost the lives of the colonists making them go on to attack the Indians, and Indians attacking back, and etc. British's under estimation of the Indians caused the rebellion to be greater than it should have been, and small fights between Colonists and Indians. This proves that starting from the beginning, the British were careless and didn't have too much interest regarding colonial matters.