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Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 happed right after Britain won the French and Indian War. Britain restricted the colonists from going east of the Appalachia Mountains. Also, Britain thouhgt that the colonists should pay for some of the damages from the war so they taxed the colonists. -
Sugar Act of 1764
Parlament passed a moddified version of the Sugar and Molasses act because that act was about to expire. The British evaded taxes and the undercut of the intetion of taxes. "Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is."
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Currency Act
Colonists suffered a constant shortage of currency with conduct trade. On September 1,1764, Parliment passed the Currency Act which controlled the colonial currency system. -
The Stamp Act
It was an act for granting certain stamp duties and other duties. Several duties were granted, continue, and appropriated toward defraying expenses of defending, protecting, and securing the British colonies and Plantations in America. -
Quartering Act of 1765
This act required Americans to pay for quartering soldiers and often times had to lend them places to stay. -
Stamp Act Congress
Members of this were sincerely devoted with the warmest setiments and affection and the duty of the King. They were inviolably attached to the present happy establishment of the protestant succession. -
Declaratory Act
It was an act for the better securing the dependence of the King's dominions in America upon the crown and the Parlament of Britain. Several of the house of representatives in the King's colonies and plantations in America, have against the law, claimed to themselves, or to the general assemblies of the same, the sole and exclusive right of imposing duties and taxes on the King's people in the colonies and plantations. -
Townsend Act
The townsend act is the act for granting duties in the British colonies and plantations in America.
