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Proclamation of 1763
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. -
Writs of Assistance
Legal papers which gave custom officials the right to search any building. An attempt to stop smuggling. -
Sugar Act
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. -
Stamp Act
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. -
Stamp Act Crisis
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. -
Declaratory Act
Repealed the Stamp Act but also asserted British authority to tax the colonists in “all cases whatsoever”. -
Townshend Act
Imposed duties on British china, glass, lead, paint, paper and tea imported to the colonies. -
Tea Act
Kept the tax on tea and gave the East India Company a monopoly over the American tea trade. -
Intolerable Act
Acts meant to punish Boston for the Boston Tea Party and to isolate Boston from the rest of the colonies. -
The Shot Heard Around The World
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.