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Sugar and Molasses Act
It was a British Law that force to accept a tax on molasses, sugar, and rum. It was force to accept a tax of six pence per gallon on imports of molasses from non-English colonies during the Molasses Act. -
Proclamation of 1763
At the end of the French and Indian War, the British supply a Proclamation. It was mainly planned to stop the Indians being angry by checking the right of the settlers on their lands. -
Sugar and Molasses Act
It was passed down by the Parliament of Great Britain. It was make to raise income from the 13 America colonists. The Molasses Act was repealed by the Sugar Act of 1764. It was ended with the American Revolution. -
Currency Act
It was one of the act caused the Revolutionary War. During that Act, didn't really have sliver or gold mines, it was mainly money paper. The main reason there's more money paper printed because it was a try by Parliament to limit the colonies ability to make their own currency. -
Stamp Act
It was tax that put on the American colonies by the British in 1765. The colonies were supposed to buy paper from Britain that had an official stamp on it that showed they had paid the tax. It was a tax to help the British pay for the French and Indian War . The Act stopped in 1776. -
Quartering Act of 1765
It was known the Act that the colonists have to provide food and homes to the soldiers. It was provided by the colonies that to need the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks. The act was situation that troops could only be quartered in barracks. But they were to be quartered in public houses and inns, if there wasn't enough space in barracks. -
Townshend Act
It was a series of law, and it was set new import taxes on British goods including paint, paper, lead, glasses, and tea. They used to keep British troops in America. It ended March 1770(it doesn't same exact date) -
Boston Massacre
It was a battle that was held one day. During that time, the soldiers came to hold up a sentry who was being held down by a heckling, snowballing crowd, and then the soldiers let go shot all at the same time. All of a sudden, three people were killed right away. Also two others died due to injury. The first who died was Crispus Attucks, a black man or Indian parentage. -
Boston Tea Party
Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor. Then they threw 342 chests of tea into the Boston harbor and destroyed. -
Intolerable Acts
It was also called Coercive Acts and Restraining Acts. The act was especially punishment for the Massachusetts colonists because the actions taken in the events known as the Boston Tea Party. -
First Continental Congress
It was a meeting that brought up representatives from each of the 13 colonies. But out of the 13 colonies, only 12 went to the meeting. The only colony didn't went was Georgia. It was ended at October 26, 1774. -
Lexington/Concord
It was took place at Massachusetts and it was a battle that lasted one day. It was the first military engagement of the American Revolutionary War.
