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Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 was put into place after the French and Indian war. It made so that colonist could not go and use the land that the British gained from the French. -
Sugar Act
This act placed a large tax on sugar, molasses, and other foreign goods that didn't come from Britain. -
Currency Act
This Act made it so that the colonists money could not be used to pay British merchants or taxes. Which mean the colonists where going to have to use British money to pay for everything. This did not go over well with the colonists. -
Stamp Act
This act was passed to make colonists have to pay for a stamps on newspapers and legal documents. This was really just another way for the British to make money off of the colonists. -
Quartering Act
This act did not allow British soldiers to stay in private homes, but in barracks. These barracks were paid for by the colonists. They also had to pay for anything else the soldiers needed. -
Declaratory Act
The British replied the Stamp Act. They did this because merchants were starting to lose money, which meant that soon they would too. -
Townshend Act
This act placed a tax on glass, lead, paint, and tea. All imported goods from the British. -
Boston Massacre
Colonist and British soldiers were having an argument. When colonists started to throw snowballs, stones, and sticks. Thats when the soldiers started to shot, and 5 colonists died. -
Boston Tea Party
The sons of liberty wanted to boycott the British, so they threw the British tea that they had just got into the Boston harbor. -
Intolerable Acts
Theses were four different laws that the British passed to punish the colonist for the Boston Tea Party. -
Quebec Act
This Act allowed Colonist to go pass the province of Quebec. The proclamation act was replied. -
Quartering Act
This act allowed royal governors to chose were British solider would stay. Colonial legislatures no longer had a say.