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Navigation Act
required all European goods bound for America (or other colonies) to be shipped through England first. -
Sugar Act
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Stamp Act
act of the British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents -
Declaratory Act
An Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act. -
Townshend Act
were a series of acts passed, beginning in 1767, by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. -
Boston Massacre
was a street fight between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers -
Tea Act
the final straw in a series of unpopular policies and taxes imposed by Britain on her American colonies. -
Boston Tea Party
was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. -
Intlerable Act
were the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party.