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A British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide. -
To take effect on September 29, the new Sugar Act cut the duty on foreign molasses from 6 to 3 pence per gallon, retained a high duty on foreign refined sugar, and prohibited the importation of all foreign rum. -
British Parliament finally passed the Stamp Act or Duties in American Colonies Act. -
Was a series of measures, passed by the British Parliament in 1767, that taxed goods imported to the American colonies. -
British sentries guarding the Boston Customs House shot into a crowd of civilians, killing three men and injuring eight, two of them mortally. -
Was an American political and mercantile protest on December 16, 1773, by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts. -
There were a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. -
Was a series of legislative bodies, with some executive function, for the Thirteen Colonies of Great Britain in North America, and the newly declared United States before, during, and after the American Revolutionary War. -
To plan further responses if the British government did not repeal or modify the acts. -
It was engrossed on parchment and on August 2, 1776, delegates began signing it.