Acts of War

Date	Name of Act	Basic Provisions	Georgia's Reaction
April 5, 1764	Revenue Act of 1764	Revised duties on sugar, tea, coffee, wine; expanded jurisdiction of some courts	Protests about taxation; Georgia especially concerned because of lumber trade with sugar-producing Carribean countries
March 22, 1765 thru March 18, 1766	Stamp Act	Documents must contain a revenue stamp to be legal. All deeds, wills, marriage licenses, even newspapers affected	Georgia's stamp master serves a single day in January, 1766
May 1765	Quartering Act	British troops must be given housing on demand from colonists.	New York Assembly was punished for its failure to comply. Georgians understandably upset.
March 18, 1766	Declaratory Act	Parliment declares sovereignty over colonies in all cases. Enacted on the same day that Parliment repealed the Stamp Act	Georgians become continually upset, realizing that this was simply a move to allow England to save face on the world stage.
June 26, 29, July 2, 1767; repealed April 12, 1770	Townshend Act	Includes duties on new items including tea, glass and other goods available in the Western Hemisphere Georgia begin to import goods directly from nearby Western Hemisphere trading partners rather than buy from England	Georgia started buying from other suppliers in the Western Hemisphere. Georgia House of Representatives dissolved in dispute over these acts
May 10, 1773	Tea Act	East India Tea Company granted sole right to sell tea directly to Americans; some duties on tea reduced	Nearest Tea Party was Charleston, S.C.. Savannah had no tea assigned
March-June, 1774	Administration of Justice Act ("Intolerable Act") Boston Port Act Also	Closes Boston Harbor; eliminates current government of Massachusetts; restricts many other government meetings	Convening of first Continental Congress (September, 1774)
December 22, 1775	Prohibitory Act	Tries to force Americans into submission with direct attacks on liberties granted all Englishmen	Prior to this, many Georgians had been Loyalists. However, this was the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back for many.