Category
page 1Laws leading to the American Revolution
Stamp Act 1765
UK parliament act of 1765
Intolerable Acts
series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774
Navigation Acts
legislative act of England on the docking of foreign shipping
Royal Proclamation of 1763
British Parliamentary act setting a western border for the American colonies
Quebec Act of 1774
1774 law setting up Quebec as part of the British Empire
Townshend Acts
Political precursor to the American Revolution
Tea Act 1773
1773 British legislative act
Sugar Act
UK tax legislation, a trigger of the American Revolution
Quartering Acts
acts of British Parliament requiring American colonists to house British soldiers
Molasses Act
United Kingdom legislation
Boston Port Act
UK parliament act of 1774
Massachusetts Government Act 1775
act of the Parliament of Great Britain, effectively abrogating the Massachusetts Charter of 1691, one of the causes of the American Revolution
Currency Act
United Kingdom legislation
Administration of Justice Act 1774
United Kingdom legislation
Declaratory Act
American Colonies Act of Great Britain