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This restricted Anglo-American colonists from settling on French-owned land gained from the French and Indian War. The boundary was marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide.
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Giving control to Britain over colonial currency, and prohibited the issue of any new currency.
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Added a strict tax on sugar. molasses, and other products imported into the colonies from non-British sources. Prohibited all foreign rum.
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To help pay for war debts from The French and Indian War, Parliament passed this act which required all colonists to pay a tax, expressed by a stamp, on all documents, papers, playing cards, dice, etc
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Allowed British soldiers to board in the American colonies and called for colonists to house theses soldiers in barracks.
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British Parliament could now make laws binding the American Colonies in any case.
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Enforced taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. Led to boycotting.
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British Soldiers guarding the Boston Customs House from riots, shot in the crowd, killing three immediately, and injuring eight, with two of them later succumbing to their injuries, after being verbally and physically harassed by the riot.
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Disguised Sons of Liberty, dumped 92,000 pounds of tea into the Boston Harbor to protest the unfair taxes placed on the colonies.
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American Colonists were given 4 laws to follow as punishment for the Boston Tea Party, including the Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Impartial Admin of Justice Act, and the Quartering Act 1774.
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Being the most harsh of the two quartering acts, royal governors could now order British soldiers to live in American colonists' homes.
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Gave emancipation to French-speaking Catholics, but gave the British more control over religion, land distribution, and colonial government.
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