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Navigation Acts
Are acts that did not allow the use of foreign ships for trade between Britain and their colonies . -
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The American Revolution
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Proclamation of 1763
King George III of England and the British board of the trade issued the Proclamatiion of 1763 after the Frnech and Indian War. The act was meant to make governments for each territory that were gained following the war, the act was meant to make peace between the colonists and the indians, and to keep the colonists near the outside coast for easier taxation. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act put taxes on sugar and raised the taxes on certain items such as coffe, indigo, and certain types of wine. The colonists hoped that this would the time that they actually had a say on how much they had to pay for taxes -
Stamp Act
Made all American Colonists to pay a tax on all printed paper they used. The cost of the stamps weren't very large but it was the reason why they needed to pay taxes. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act made the colonists take in British Soldiers if there barracks were full and had no place to house the Soldiers. -
Townshend Acts
A series of acts passed by the British Parliament relating Britain to the British colonies in North America. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight between colonists and British soldiers. The colonists were throwing snowballs, stones, sticks. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was an act of defiance from the American colocnial to protest against taxation. -
Intolerable Acts
A series of of punitive laws made by the American Patriots and passed by the British Parliament, it was meant to punish the Massachussetts colonsts fr throwing a tea shipment at British harbor. -
Lexington & Concord
The Battle of Lexington and Concord was a army of Boston Militias who attacked the town of Lexington the Concord to take hostages such as Colonial leaders Sam Adams and John Hancock. They attacked Concord to retrieve more Gunpowder.
The colonists didn't what to do after they had attacked Lexington and saw blood beign shed. They did spread the word to Concord
