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Colonia Unrest
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Pontiac's Rebellion
A war launched in 1763 by the Native Americans who were displeased with the Birtish policies in the Great Lakes region. -
Proclamation of 1763
Issued by King George III after the end of the French Indian War and after England had taken over Frace's land in North America. This proclamation forbade settlement past a line along the Appalachian Mountains -
Sugar Act
Another name for this is the American Revenue Act. It was an act passed by British granting certain duties in the British colonies and plantations in America. Encouraged and secured the trade of sugar in the colonies, along with many other types of trade and duties in colonies -
Stamp Act
Imposed a tax on British Colonies in America, which required most printing be done on stamped paper. -
Quartering Act
Parliament passed the Quartering Act to outline the locations and conditions that British Soldiers are to find room and board in the American colonies. It required for the colonies to house British Soldiers in barracks, but if they were too small they'd need small inns. -
Declatory Act
Repealed the Stamp Act, because it was ruining British trade. Also, lessened the Sugar Act, for the British -
Townshend Acts
Series of acts passed by the Parliament of Great Britain, in Birtish -
Tea Act
The Tea Act was the final act of taxes imposed on the colonists by England. Was what started the feud of The Boston Tea Party. It was enforced so the colonists would buy Company tea in which Townshend acts were applied to. -
Boston Tea Party
Political protest by the Sons of Liberty, to go against the Tea act enforced by England. -
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1st Continental Congress
Meeting of delegates at Carpentars Hall in Philadelphia. Called to the response of the Intolerable Acts, -
Intolerable Acts
The colonists term for the series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament of 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. THey were made to punish the colonists in Massachusetts for dumping their tea.
