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Navigation Acts
Purpose- To direct trade between England and the colonies.
Outcome- Smuggling became more common. -
Sugar Act
Purpose- This act lowered tax on sugar so the colonists would hopefully pay it now.
Outcome-Angered colonists because they thought it interfered with their rights. -
Proclamation Of 1763
Purpose- To aviod conflict with Native americans, could could not move west of the Appalachian Moutians.
Outcome-Colonists were mad beecause they fought for that land, and some already bought land west of them. -
Stamp Act
Purpose- Britan was in debt form the Seven Years War and saw the colonies as a revenue source.
Outcome- No taxation without representation, mobs, and boycotts. -
Declaratory Act
Purpose- Parliament had to right to tax and made desisions for British colonists.
Outcome- Helped build up Revolutionary war and some thought it would bring more taxes. -
Townshend Acts
Purpose- made this act once the Stamp act was repealed so they were still taxing colonists.
Outcome- Boycotts were organized and so was the Sons and Daughters of Librety. -
Tea Act
Purpose- To control the trade of tea.
Outcome- The Boston tea Party. -
Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts)
Purpose- Intended to punish Massachusetts residents and didnt want to lose control of the colonies.
Outcome- Colonits felt that it violated their rights as English citizens. -
Qubec Act
Purpose- To set up government in Quebec and give them land west of Appalachian Mountians and North of the Ohio River.
Outcome- Colonists called this an Intolerable Act, because it was Intolerable.
