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Proclamation of 1763
made following the British victory over France in the French and Indian Wars -
Sugar Act
a British Law, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on April 5, 1764, that was designed to raise revenue from the American colonists in the 13 Colonies -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Acts were two British Laws that were designed to make local colonial governments to provide provisions and housing to British soldiers -
Stamp Act
the stamp act was designed to raise revenue from american colonies in the form of a stamp -
Townshend Acts
series of laws which sent new import taxes on british goods -
Boston Massacre
Confrontation in which the British shot and killed many in the street -
Tea Acts
designed to bail out the british east india company and to expand the company's monopoly on the tea trade to all british colonies -
Boston Tea Party
political protest created by the colonists, anrgry at Great Britain for imposing "no taxation without representation" -
Intolerable Acts
laws passed by british parliament intended to harm the colonists in their defiance towards the tea party protest -
Battle of Lexington
Ignited the start of the Revolutionary war, the British fought American Colonists in Massachusetts.