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Navigation Acts 1650-1673
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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US History
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French and Indian War
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 -
Proclamation of 1763
banned colonization west of the appalachian mountains.
-those who already lived there must move east -
The Sugar Act
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 -
Stamp Act
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 -
Stamp Act Repealed
Colonial petitions and protests Franklin Presented colonial protests before House of Commons -
Townshend Acts
Taxed More items
-Imported Glass
-Lead
-Paint
-Paper
-Tea -
Boston Massacre
-Argument between soldiers guarding custom house and crowd
-Used as propaganda to increase hatred of British soldiers -
Sons of Liberty
-Formed by Samuel Adams
-Protested against taxes
-sometimes used intimidation and physical violence to achieve their goals -
Tea Act
-New act, lowered price of tea but required colonists to buy it from the east india company -
Committees Of Correspondence
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 “Intolerable Acts”
the American Patriots' name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. -
Boston tea Party
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
