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Any good traded by the colonies had to be carried on an english or colonial shi
All goods exported by colonies first had to pass through england and be taxed
Specific goods could only be sent to england -
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A war betweern the French and Brtish over land and and control of fur trade in North america. Britain won the war and gained control of the Mississippi river , Land east of the mississippi, and parts of Canada
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banned colonization west of the appalachian mountains.
-those who already lived there must move east -
Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act (1733), which was about to expire. Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses
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The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Items taxed
-Newspaper
-Pamphlets
-Licenses
-Legal Documents
-Playing Cards -
Colonial petitions and protests Franklin Presented colonial protests before House of Commons
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Taxed More items
-Imported Glass
-Lead
-Paint
-Paper
-Tea -
-Argument between soldiers guarding custom house and crowd
-Used as propaganda to increase hatred of British soldiers -
-Formed by Samuel Adams
-Protested against taxes
-sometimes used intimidation and physical violence to achieve their goals -
-New act, lowered price of tea but required colonists to buy it from the east india company
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Formed to allow the colonies to communicate with each other
-Spread revolutionary acts
-often quicker than other methods of communication
-writings would be read aloud or published in other colonies -
the American Patriots' name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party.
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3 ships were anchored in boston harbor
-Ordered by governor to unload cargo of tea
-threatened by colonists - told not to unload
-December 16th- at night, patriots dressed as native americans boarded the ships & threw
90,000 lbs of tea over board
