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Proclamation Act
George the 3rd wouldnt let anyone settle in the appalaction mountains, also defending the colonies right to govern land in the west. -
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Sugar act
The colonists were running low on products causing alot of people to steal. Taxes got raised on things like molasis and rum. -
Stamp Act
All legal Documents had to be stamped, but all the prices for stamps and mailing letters raised causing the colonists not being able to afford paying for stamps. -
Quartering act
Name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the 18th century. Parliament enacted them to order local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing.Colonial asseblies required to pay for supplies to the british garrisons. -
First Continental Congress Meeting
Colonial delegstes meet to organize oppositon to the intoreable acts.They punished Mass for the Boston Tea Party. -
Townshend act
Duties on tea, glass,lead, paper and apint to help pay for the adminstraction of the colonies. -
Boston massacre
Angened by the prsences of the troops and Britians colonial policy. British army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others. British troops were stantioned in Boston. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act would launch the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. The act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies, and in fact imposed no new taxes. Tea was also sold directy to the colonists. -
Boston Tea Party
The Sons of Liberty and the Boston Tea Party.A group of colonists protest thirteen years of increasing British oppression, by attacking merchant ships in Boston Harbor. In retaliation, the British close the port, and inflict even harsher penalties. -
Declaration of Rights and Grievances
A Document written by the stamp act congress and passed on october 19, 1765 it declared that taxes imposed on british colonists without their formal consents were unconstitutional.
