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After Pontiac’s Rebellion, the British government saw that defending the Western lands would be costly. This proclamation forbade colonists to settle west of the Appalachians. This made the colonists angry. They thought they had won the right to settle the Ohio River Valley. The British government was angry at the colonists, who did not pay for their own defense. King George III, the British monarch, wanted to enforce the proclamation and also keep peace with Britain's Native American allies. To do this, he decided to keep 10,000 soldiers in the colonies.  In 1765, Parliament passed the Quartering Act. This was a cost-saving measure that required the colonies to quarter, or house, British soldiers and provide them with supplies.  This hostility helped cause the war for American independence.

[Caption] Map of the area affected by the Proclamation

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Year: September 1774
At this meeting, delegates voted to ban a trade with Britain until the Intolerable Acts were repealed. They also called on each colony to begin training troops. Georgia agreed to be a part of the actions of the Congress even though it had voted no to send delegates. The First Continental Congress marked a key step in American history. Although most delegates were not ready to call for independence, they were determined to uphold colonial rights. This meeting planted the seeds of a future independent government. John Adams called it a "a nursery of American statesmen." The delegates agreed to meet in seven months, if necessary By that time, however, fighting with Britain had begun.

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Year: October 7-25, 1765
The Stamp Act Congress met in the Federal Hall building in New York City. It was the first colonial action against a British measure and was formed to protest the Stamp Act issued by British Parliament on March 1765. The Stamp Act Congress was attended by 27 representative of nine of the thirteen colonies. Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia were prevented from attending because their loyal governors refused to convene the assemblies to elect delegates. New Hampshire did not attend but approved the resolutions once Congress was over. The Stamp Act Congress declared the Stamp Act duties as extremely bothersome as the scarcity of specie made its payment impractical. Local profits would suffer from the payment of the duty ultimately affecting transatlantic trade. Congress also supported the boycott of British goods.
[Caption] The Stamp Congress discussing about ways to rebel against the British

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Year: March 24, 1765
King George III, the British monarch, wanted to enforce the proclamation and also keep peace with Britain's Native American allies. To do this, he decided to keep 10,000 soldiers in the colonies.  In 1765, Parliament passed the Quartering Act. This was a cost-saving measure that required the colonies to quarter, or house, British soldiers and provide them with supplies. The Quartering Act outlined the locations and conditions in which British soldiers are to find room and board in the American colonies.The Quartering Act required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies. If the barracks were too small to house all the soldiers, then localities were to accommodate the soldiers in local inns, livery stables, ale houses, victualling houses, and the houses of sellers of wine. Should there still be soldiers without accommodation after all such public houses were filled, the colonies were then required to take, hire and make fit for the reception of his Majesty’s forces, such and so many uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings as shall be necessary.

[Caption] British soldiers taking over a colonists household for accommodation

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Year: 1766
This law said that Parliament had supreme authority to govern the colonies. The Americans celebrated the repeal of the Stamp Act and tried to ignore the Declaratory Act. The Declaratory Act was passed by the British parliament to affirm its power to legislate for the colonies “in all cases whatsoever” which could surely be taken to mean the power to tax. A great tug of war between Parliament and the colonies had begun. The central issue was control of the colonies.
[Caption] English colonists receiving the effects of the Declaratory Acts

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Year: 1765
The Stamp Act was the first tax put onto the American colonists by the British government.  . The act, which imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies, came at a time when the British Empire was deep in debt from the Seven Years’ War (1756-63) and looking to its North American colonies as a revenue source. Arguing that only their own representative assemblies could tax them, the colonists insisted that the act was unconstitutional, and they resorted to mob violence to intimidate stamp collectors into resigning. Parliament repealed the Stamp Act in 1766.
[Caption] The Stamp Act

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Year: May 10, 1773
The Tea Act was one of several measures imposed on the American colonists by the heavily indebted British government in the decade leading up to the American Revolutionary War. The act’s main purpose was not to raise revenue from the colonies but to bail out the floundering East India Company, a key actor in the British economy. The British government granted the company a monopoly on the importation and sale of tea in the colonies.
[Caption] The East India Tea Company

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Year: March 5, 1770
A squad of British soldiers, come to support a sentry who was being pressed by a heckling, snowballing crowd, let loose a volley of shots. Three persons were killed immediately and two died later of their wounds; among the victims was Crispus Attucks, a man of black or Indian parentage. The British officer in charge, Capt. Thomas Preston, was arrested for manslaughter, along with eight of his men; all were later acquitted. The Boston Massacre is remembered as a key event in helping to motivate the colonial public to the Patriot cause.
[Caption] The Boston

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Year: 1767
The Townshend Acts were caused by the king's finance minister, Charles Townshend, telling Parliament that he had a way to raise revenue in the colonies. The first of the Townshend Acts suspended New York's assembly until New Yorkers agreed to provide housing for the troops. The other acts placed duties, or import taxes, on various goods brought into the colonies, such as glass, paper, paint, lead, and tea. Townshend thought that duties, which were collected before the goods entered the colonies, would anger the colonists less than the direct taxes of the Stamp Act. The money raised would be used to pay the salaries of British governors and other officials in the colonies. To enforce the acts, British officers would use writs of assistance, or search warrants, to enter homes or businesses to search for smuggled goods.
[Caption] The Townshend Acts

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Year: 1764
The Sugar Act was a law that enforced a tax on sugar, molasses, and other products shipped to the colonies. It also called for strict enforcement of the act and harsh punishment of smugglers. Colonial merchants, who often traded in smuggled goods, reacted with anger.
The Sugar Act was a revenue-raising act passed by the British
Parliament in April 1764. By reducing the earlier Molasses Tax's rate and expanding enforcement, the British hoped that the tax could be effectively collected. The acts were met with great resistance in the colonies, as many colonists considered it a violation of their rights as Englishmen to be taxed without their consent. Colonial uprising led to the first joint colonial response to British measures. Local protest groups created a loose coalition that extended from New England to Georgia, and organized resistance kept the stamp tax from being effectively collected.

[Caption] A poster that encouraged colonists to unite against the British

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Year: 1774
The Intolerable Acts were a series of punitive laws passed by the  British Parliamentin 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance of throwing a large tea shipment into Boston Harbor in reaction to being taxed by the British. In Great Britain, these laws were referred to as the Coercive Acts.The acts took away Massachusetts' self-government and historic rights, triggering outrage and resistance in the Thirteen Colonies. They were key developments in the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775.
[Caption] British officials torturing English colonists for not paying their taxes

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Year: December 16, 1773
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. The demonstrators, some disguised as Native Americans, in defiance of the Tea Act of May 10, 1773, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company. They boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into Boston Harbor. The British government responded harshly and the episode escalated into the American Revolution. The Tea Party was the culmination of a resistance movement throughout British America against the Tea Act, which had been passed by the British Parliament in 1773. Colonists objected to the Tea Act because they believed that it violated their rights as Englishmen to "No taxation without representation", that is, be taxed only by their own elected representatives and not by a British parliament in which they were not represented.
[Caption] English colonists dumping tea into the Boston Harbor