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The British declared the Proclamation of 1763 at the end of the French and Indian War to make peace with the Native Americans by looking over the European trespassers on their lands. This created the proclamation line separating the British colonies on the Atlantic Coast and the American Indian lands to the west of the Appalachian Mountains. It caused Britain to keep a higher control over its colonies. The colonists reacted with anger and hate towards the British.
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The Sugar Act arrived during a time of depression. It was an indirect tax toward the colonists even though they were informed of it. British legislation aimed to end the smuggling of sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies and provide larger incomes to fund the British Empire's responsibilities following the French and Indian War. The colonist's reaction to this was protesting.
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The Parliament passes the Currency Act intending to take control of the bimetallic system. Instead, it ended any giving of bills and renewing of money, The Parliament preferred a country that makes less money, but they weren't willing to manage the colonial bills. The colonists reacted by resenting and refusing to pay.
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The Parliament passed the Stamp Act which forced a direct tax on the British colonies in America and required a stamped paper from London on everything produced. The colonists reacted with boycotts of British goods, riots, and attacks on tax collectors.
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The British Parliament passes the Quartering Act of 1765 to raise the income from the British colonies in America. It required that Americans pay for the occupation in the colonies and offer them housing. The colonist's responses were negative because they weren't fond of the act.
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The Declaratory Act accompanied follows the cancellation of the Stamp Act of 1765 and the change of the Sugar Act. A group of members agreed to sign the repeal bill only if there was proof of the Parliament's power to make laws for the colonies that came along with it. the colonist's reaction was to celebrate their victory.
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The Townshend Act was a series of measures passed by the British Parliament in 1767 that taxed goods imported to the American colonies and utilize the authority through suspension of a resistant representative assembly and through strict provisions for the collection of income duties. The colonists protested "no taxation without representation" claiming that the British didn't have the right to tax them because they lacked in the legislative body.
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The Boston Massacre consisted of a man and a British man arguing in Boston, Massachusetts. later on, 3 people died and two were critically injured. This caused a shift in the relations between American colonists and the British authorities. The colonist's reaction to this was to continue to rebel.
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The Boston Tea Party was a political protest at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. Colonists were fed up with the British after imposing “taxation without representation.” They dumped 342 chests of tea whither were imported by the British East India Company into the harbor. The colonists responded with protests and coordinated resistance.
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The Intolerable Acts, also known as the Coercive Acts, were a series of four laws imposed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. The colonists responded to this with convening the First Continental Congress to negotiate a unified approach to the the British.
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The Quartering Act of 1774 was applied to all the American colonies not just to Massachusetts. This one allowed royal governors instead of colonial legislatures to find homes and buildings to quarter or house British soldiers. The colonials were outraged by the Quartering Act.
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The Quebec Act allowed French Catholics to obtain good jobs in the government, let the French practice their style of law, and gave more power to the Catholic Church. The colonials considered the Quebec Act as intolerable because they saw it as a threat to their colonial governments and the freedom they previously had under British rule.