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A British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide
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The Sugar Act was a strongly enforced tax on sugar, molasses, and other products imported into the American colonies from non-British Caribbean sources.
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The Currency Act prohibited the printing and issuance of paper money by Colonial legislatures.
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The Stamp Act required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards.
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The Quartering Act stated that Great Britain would house its soldiers in American barracks and public houses.
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The Declaratory act was an act for the better securing the dependency of his majesty's dominions in America upon the crown and parliament of Great Britain
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The Townshend Acts, which initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea.
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The Boston Massacre was when British sentries guarding the Boston Customs House shot into a crowd of civilians, killing three men and injuring eight, two of them mortally.
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The Quebec Act granted emancipation for the Catholic, French-speaking settlers of Quebec.
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60 American colonists threw 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to (essentially) annoy the British after a tax on tea
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The Coercive Acts were a series of laws that restricted trade and increased British control in Boston and the rest of Massachusetts.
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The Quartering Act of 1774 allowed British troops to be housed in private homes and facilities.