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Sugar Act
Revised taxes on Sugar, coffee, tea, wine, and other imports.It also made the jurisdiction of vicee-admiralty courts larger. -
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Stamp Act
Printed documents only needed on special papers purchased from stamp distributors. -
Quartering Act
Act that made English colonist supply British troops with housing and other necessities. -
Declaratory Act
Parliment declares that they are superior over the colonist, Parliment is domonant over the colonies. -
Townshend Revenue Acts
New taxes proposed on glass, lead, paper, paints, tea. Customs collections become tighter in the states. -
Apealing the Townshend Act
Massachucetts House of Representatives drafted a circular letter requesting suggestions on how best to thwart the Townshend Acts.
Lord Hillsborough said it was treason, but then he was voted out. -
Boston Massacre
Massacre where British troops fired into a lin of colonist. were killed. It was a big misunderstanding between to two. Colonist were the ones who said fire; troops did. -
Committees of Correspondence Formed- Samuel Adams
Committee formed by Samuel Adams to inform American colonist of British anticolonial actions -
Tea Act
Parliment gave the EITC rights to sell tea directly to Americans. This tea had reduced taxes. -
Boston Tea Party
Colonist descised themselves as indians and took over a British ship full of tea. They then dumped the tea into Boston Harbor. -
Coercive Acts
British government closes American ports.British troops are quartered in Massachusetts. Town meetings are restricted. British government officials accused of crimes sent to England or Canada for trial. -
George Washington
Appointed the commander-in-chief of a new colonial army and sent to Boston to lead the Massachusetts militia and volunteer units from other colonies. -
Shots Heard Around the World
Minutemen and British troops were ready to fight in Lexington. One side fired on accident. It is unknown which side it was. 8 Americans died, 10 were wounded compared to 1 British and shots into a horse. -
Prohibitory Act
Declared British intentions to coerce Americans into submissions. Embargo on American goods, Americna ships aare seized from the Americans,
