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British Colonial Policy Change
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Sugar Act
A British Parliament Law in 1764 raising duties on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies so as to give British sugar growers in the West Indies a monopoly on the colonial market. -
Quartering Act
British Parliament Law, outlining the locations and conditions in which British soldiers are to find room and board in the American colonies (barracks provided by the colonies). -
Stamp Act
British Parliament act that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. -
Declaratory Act
British Parliament act that stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain. -
Townshend Act
A series of measures, passed by the British Parliament in 1767, that taxed goods imported to the American colonies. -
Boston Massacre
a street fight, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry. -
Tea Act
Passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies. -
Boston Tea-Party
American colonists protests, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumping 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor. -
Intolerable Act
a series of British measures passed in 1774 and designed to punish the Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party.