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A British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide. Prevented American colonists from settling on lands acquired from the French. -
Legal papers which gave custom officials the right to search any building. An attempt to stop smuggling. -
A revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain. It taxed sugar and decreased taxes on molasses in British colonies in America and the West Indies. -
An Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed tax on the British colonies in America. Required many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London. -
In response to the Stamp Act the colonists did things such as, forming the Sons and Daughters of Liberty, protested, harassed tax collectors, and boycotted trade with England. -
Repealed the Stamp Act but also asserted British authority to tax the colonists in “all cases whatsoever”. -
Imposed duties on British china, glass, lead, paint, paper and tea imported to the colonies. -
Kept the tax on tea and gave the East India Company a monopoly over the American tea trade. -
Acts meant to punish Boston for the Boston Tea Party and to isolate Boston from the rest of the colonies. -
The opening shot of the battles of Lexington and Concord, began the American Revolutionary War and led to the creation of the United States of America.