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It closed off the frontier to colonial 

expansion.

It had established 4 new different 

colonies; Quebec, West Florida, East 

Florida, and Grenada.

 The Proclamation had provided that all 

lands west of the heads of all rivers which 

flowed into the Atlantic Ocean from the 

west or northwest were off-limits to all of 

the colonists.

 In 1765, Parliament passed this cost saving 

measurement   to benefit the British soldiers.

 Colonists were required to quarter, or house, 

British soldiers and provide them with food and 

other necessary supplies.

General Thomas Gage, commander of these 

forces, put mist of the troops in New York.

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Parliament required all legal and    

commercial document to carry and 

official stamp showing that a tax has 

been paid.

All diplomas, contracts, and wills 

required this stamp.

The Stamp Act resulted in a new way to 

tax the colonies.

Charles Townshend told parliament that he had a 

way to raise revenue in the colonies.

 It suspended New York's assembly until New 

Yorkers agreed to provide housing for troops.

 Provided taxes, duties, and various goods into 

towns such as glass, paper, paint, lead, and tea.

Fall of 1768, 100 British soldiers 

arrived in Boston under the 

command of General Thomas Gage

After tensions increased, it 

exploded in violence causing fights 

and gun firing.

Crispus Attucks and 4 others had 

given their lives for freedom.

Designed to prop up the East India 

Company which was floundering 

financially and burdened with 18 million 

pounds of tea.

The tea was shipped to colonists at a 

bargained price.

This was the final spark to the 

revolutionary movement in Boston.

Men disguised as Native Americans boarded 3 tea ships and 

dumped all of the tea into the ocean.

George Hewes and others destroyed 342 chest of tea.

This was done due to King George III's taxing to the 

American Colonies.

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