Ch. 2, Pg.
____ Name: Wilfredo Mejia Date: 9/17/2020 Block: 2nd
Causes and Effects of the American Revolution
The Navigation Acts were acts of
Parliament intended to promote the
self-sufficiency of the British Empire
by restricting colonial trade to England
and decreasing dependence on
foreign imported goods.
Salutary neglect was an unofficial
British policy of non-enforcement of
trade regulations on their
American colonies
It was a boundary line, separating
the British colonies on the Atlantic
coast from American Indian lands
west of the Appalachian Mountains.
Sugar Act was a law that attempted to curb the smuggling of
sugar and molasses in the colonies by reducing the previous
tax rate and enforcing the collection of duties.
The 1764 Currency Act was a law passed by British Parliament
to regulate the issue and legal tender status of paper money in the
colonial economy.
The Stamp Act was a law passed by the British government in
1765. It meant that all legal documents and printed papers
used in the American colonies had to have an official stamp.
The Quartering Act of 1765 was passed a law
that required colonial assemblies to provide
housing, food and drink to British troops
stationed in their towns with the purpose of
improving living conditions and decreasing
the cost to the crown.
The Declaratory Act was a measure issued
by British Parliament asserting its authority
to make laws binding the colonists including
the right to tax.
The Townshend Acts consisted on a series of measures that
included a revenue tax on seventy two consumer goods; the
New York Restraining Act; the appointment of 5 member
American Board of Commissioners of Customs with
headquarters in Boston; and the expansion of the Admiralty
Courts to Boston, Philadelphia, Charleston in addition to the
existing one in Halifax.
The Boston Massacre ccurred on March 5, 1770 when British soldiers in Boston opened
fire on a group of American colonists killing five men.
 The act granted the EIC a monopoly on the sale of tea that was
cheaper than smuggled tea; its hidden purpose was to force the
colonists to pay a tax of 3 pennies on every pound of tea.

1. Boston Port Act The Boston Port Act was the first Intolerable Act passed. It was direct punishment to the city of Boston for the Boston Tea Party.
The act closed the port of Boston to all ships until the colonists paid for the tea they dumped into the harbor.
Many felt that this punishment was unfair because it punished all the citizens of Boston for a crime that only a few committed. Many of the other American colonies sent supplies to Boston.
2. Massachusetts Government Act This act changed the government of the colony of Massachusetts.
It gave more power to the governor (who was appointed by Great Britain) and took away power from the colonists.
Many of the government officials that used to be elected by the people would now be appointed by the governor. The act also said that only one town meeting a year could be held
This act angered the entire colony of Massachusetts and put fear into the other American colonies. If the British government would do this to Boston, they may do it to all the colonies.
3. Administration of Justice Act This act allowed the governor to move capital trials against government officials to Great Britain.
The colonists felt that this act gave too much to government officials. Witnesses would have to travel all the way to Britain to testify against an official, making it nearly impossible to convict.
Some colonists called this the "Murder Act" as they thought it would allow officials to get away with murder.
4. Quartering Act The Quartering Act of 1774 expanded upon the original Quartering Act of 1765. It said that the colonies had to provide barracks for British soldiers.
In the case where barracks weren't available, the soldiers could be housed in other buildings such as barns, hotels, and homes.
5. Quebec Act The Quebec Act expanded the British Canadian territory south into the Ohio Valley. It also made the Quebec Province a Catholic province.
Although this act wasn't in response to the Boston Tea Party, it was passed at the same time as the rest of the acts. It also angered many American colonists.
They were not happy about losing land in Ohio or at having a Catholic province to their north.

The New England Restraining Act was passed by Parliament in

order to punish the colonies for their boycott of British goods.
The law prohibited the New England colonies from trading with any
other country except Great Britain or the British West Indies.

The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the

13 British colonies that became the United States. A plan was proposed to
create a Union of Great Britain and the Colonies, but the delegates rejected it.

The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.[9] The battles were fought on April 19, 1775 in Middlesex County,
Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge. They marked the outbreak of armed conflict between
the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in America.