Tag: Treaties

  • Tea Act

    Summary of Tea Act: (1773) In relation to the legal history of the United States and the United Kingdom: Legislative plan by the British to make English tea marketable in America. The North administration hoped to reaffirm Parliament’s right to levy direct revenue taxes on the colonies. Lord […]

  • Tea Act

    Summary of Tea Act: (1773) In relation to the legal history of the United States and the United Kingdom: Legislative plan by the British to make English tea marketable in America. The North administration hoped to reaffirm Parliament’s right to levy direct revenue taxes on the colonies. Lord […]

  • Nathaniel Macon

    Summary of MACON’S BILL No. 2: (1810) In relation to the legal history of the United States and the United Kingdom: This law was intended to persuade both France and Great Britain from illegal search and seizure practices during the Napoleonic Wars. Nathaniel Macon proposed that the United […]

  • Molasses Act

    Summary of Molasses Act: (1733) In relation to the legal history of the United States and the United Kingdom: A British law that imposed a tax on sugar, molasses, and rum imported from non-British colonies into North American colonies. It was intended to maintain the monopoly of the American […]

  • Peace of Paris

    Summary of PEACE OF PARIS OR TREATY OF PARIS: (1763) In relation to the legal history of the United States and the United Kingdom: Ended the Seven Year’s War (In America known as the French and Indian War) England gained all of France’s North American possessions east of the Mississippi River. […]

  • Intolerable Acts

    Summary of Intolerable Acts: (1774) In relation to the legal history of the United States and the United Kingdom:?Coercive Acts.? Four corrective actions passed by the British government in retaliation for acts of colonial defiance. They became the justification for assembling the First […]

  • Powers Treaties

    Summary of Five Powers Treaty, Four Powers Treaty, Nine Powers Treaty In relation to the legal history of the United States and the United Kingdom: Five Powers Treaty: Signed as part of the Washington Naval Conference, U.S., Great Britain, Japan, France, and Italy set a ten year suspension of […]

  • Quebec Act

    Summary of Quebec Act: (1774) In relation to the legal history of Canada and the United Kingdom: Mandated that an appointed governor and a council would lead the Canadian government. The British also acknowledged that the Catholic Church would enjoy a privileged position. This concession was […]

  • Sugar

    Summary of Sugar Act: (1764) In relation to the legal history of the United States and the United Kingdom: Provided for strong enforcement of the duties on refined sugar and molasses imported into the colonies from non-British Caribbean sources to reduce smuggling. It granted a monopoly on the […]

  • Townshend Acts

    Summary of Townshend Acts: (1767) In relation to the legal history of the United States and the United Kingdom: A series of four acts passed by the British Parliament in an effort to declare its right of colonial authority through suspension of a representative assembly and through strict […]

  • Townshend Acts

    Summary of Townshend Acts: (1767) In relation to the legal history of the United States and the United Kingdom: A series of four acts passed by the British Parliament in an effort to declare its right of colonial authority through suspension of a representative assembly and through strict […]

  • Stamp

    Summary of Stamp Act: (1765) In relation to the legal history of the United States and the United Kingdom: Part of Grenville’s plan to defray the cost of maintaining the British army along the American frontier. Revenue stamps were attached to printed matter and legal documents, newspapers, […]

  • Stamp

    Summary of Stamp Act: (1765) In relation to the legal history of the United States and the United Kingdom: Part of Grenville’s plan to defray the cost of maintaining the British army along the American frontier. Revenue stamps were attached to printed matter and legal documents, newspapers, […]

  • Treaty of Ghent

    Summary of TREATY OF GHENT: (1814) In relation to the legal history of the United States and the United Kingdom: This agreement was signed at the end of the War of 1812. It was signed in Ghent, Belgium. The threat of hostilities in Europe forced the British to accept the terms of the […]

  • Declaratory Act

    Summary of Declaratory Act: (1766) In relation to the legal history of the United States and the United Kingdom: Stated that the British Parliament had the same power to tax in the colonies as it did in Great Britain. Parliament emphasized its authority to make binding laws on the American […]