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Navigation Act
Focused trade between the Colonies and Great Britain...Outcome was the Colonists would smuggle goods for less money. -
Proclamation of 1763
PURPOSE- Parliament made the Appalachians Mountains a boundary line for the colonies. OUTCOME- Colonists who had land shares west of the boundary couldn't croos to get to their land shares. -
Sugar Act
PURPOSE- Parliament lowered the tax on sugar because they thought if the tax was lower people would pay for it and not smuggle. OUTCOME- Colonists thought the act and laws trying to stop smuggling was a violation to their rights of English citizans. -
Stamp Act
PURPOSE- Parliament wanted to interfear with colonial affaitrs. And they taxed them without consent. OUTCOME- Patrick Henery persuaded the burgesses to take action against the Stamp Act. -
Declaratory Act
PURPOSE- Parliament made this act so they can tax the coloines what ever they want to tax them. OUTCOME- Parliament could tax anything apon the colonies. -
Townshend Act
PURPOSE- The tax focused on the imported goods like glass, tea, and paper. OUTCOME- The colonists were angered and said only their representitatives could tax them. -
Tea Act
PURPOSE- The act let Parliament incontroll of trade for tea in the colonies. OUTCOME- Colonial merchants called for a new boycott. -
Quebec Act
PURPOSE- This act set up a government for Quebec. Also gave Quebec land west of Appalachians Mountains and north of the Ohio River. OUTCOME- The colonists expressed thier feelings for the act by calling it the Intolerable Act. -
Intolerable Act
PURPOSE- The act was to punish the people of Massachusetts for their resistance to British law. OUTCOME- The colonists said that the act violated theirrights as British citizens.
