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The Proclamation of 1763 ceased the colonies' westward expansion, allowing for the Natives to inhabit that area freely. This, in the eyes of the colonists, was an act directly against them in their sought to gain more land.
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The Sugar Act of 1764 levied taxes on imports of luxury items such as coffee or rum, and was aimed to cease the smuggling of such items. Ships were taken down if they deemed to be smuggling into the colonies.
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The Currency Act of 1764 disallowed the colonies to make and sustain their own currency, and was harsh on the colonists due to hard currency being particularly scarce.
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The Quartering Act of 1765 required colonists to provide royal troops with shelter and supplies.
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The Stamp Act of 1765, in response to the overwhelming war expenses raised by the French Indian Wars, was a harsh levy of taxes in the form of stamps that covered a majority of the daily items colonists use. The act was so severely impacting the colonists that they organized a Stamp Act Congress in order to appeal to the King and Parliament enough to repeal the act. This is where Taxation Without Representation was most utilized.
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The Declaratory Act of 1766 was made shortly after the Stamp Act was repealed, and allowed Parliament to make laws that could bind the colonies in any case. This retaliatory act ended the short-lived grace period given to the colonists.
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The Townshend Acts of 1767 focused on levying taxes on imports from Britain to America. This was in response to high taxes being in Britain. Colonists resented this act, not as much as the Stamp Act, but enough to once again make non-import agreements and boycott Britain as best as they could manage.
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The Boston Massacre started out as a harmless snowballing of British soldiers, which turned violent when said British soldiers were given the order to fire, killing three colonists. This incident stirred great distrust in Britain by the colonists, revealing Britain's true nature and heartlessness. All Townshend taxes except for those on tea were repealed due to backlash on the act and of this incident.
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The Boston Tea Party was an organized sabotage of British cargo where, in an attempt to assure the boycott of Britain, a group of men dressed as Indians boarded a cargo ship and dumped all of the tea contents to assure that colonists would not purchase the tea and, in doing so, pay the taxes. The East India Company working with Parliament ordered Parliament to punish the colonists, as, if there was no punishment, Parliament would be forced to cut control on all colonies Britain had.
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The Intolerable Acts of 1774 were a group of five Acts that directly punished the colonists for the Boston Tea Party. The Acts involved were the Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act, the Quartering Act, and the Quebec Act. Colonists were irked by each of these and deemed them intolerable, hence the name.
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The Quartering Act of 1774 was part of the Intolerable Acts and required local authorities to seek shelter for British troops, even private homes. This would have brought about the same outrage from the original Quartering Act.
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The Quebec Act most importantly gave the Catholic church recognition, which enraged the majority protestant colonists.