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Colonial Unrest
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Treaty of Paris 1763
A treaty that was signed by France, Britain, Portugal, and Spain, stating the Britain won the seven years war. -
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Pontiac's Rebellion
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Proclamation of 1763
A proclamation issued by King George III, stating that all settlement past the Appalachian Mountains was forbidded. -
The Sugar Act
An act which raised the tax of sugar and molasses in the thirteen colonies. -
The Stamp Act
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. -
The Quartering Act
Two acts that parliment instated, that made the local governments of American colonies give housing to British soldiers -
The Declaratory Act
An act issued by parliment repealing the stamp act and lessening the sugar act. -
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The Townshend Acts
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. -
Tea Act
This act taxed tea. The final straw in a series of unpopular policies -
Boston Tea Party
A political protest by the sons of liberty, where a ship load of tea is dumped into the harbor. -
Intolerbale Acts
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.