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A treaty that was signed by France, Britain, Portugal, and Spain, stating the Britain won the seven years war.
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A proclamation issued by King George III, stating that all settlement past the Appalachian Mountains was forbidded.
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An act which raised the tax of sugar and molasses in the thirteen colonies.
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An act issued by parliment that made the American colonies pay tax on all printed paper. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed.
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Two acts that parliment instated, that made the local governments of American colonies give housing to British soldiers
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An act issued by parliment repealing the stamp act and lessening the sugar act.
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A series of acts that were implemented to gain more revenue for the British. The colonies now how to pay taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea.
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This act taxed tea. The final straw in a series of unpopular policies
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A political protest by the sons of liberty, where a ship load of tea is dumped into the harbor.
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They were the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor.