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proclamation act
Prohibited Anglo-American colonists from settling on lands acquired from the French following the French and Indian War. As a result, colonists rebelled against this law just like they did with the mercantile laws. -
quartering act
The Quartering Act stated that Great Britain would house its soldiers in American barracks and public houses. -
sugar act
The Act cut the duty on foreign molasses from 6 to 3 pence per gallon, retained a high duty on foreign refined sugar, and prohibited the importation of all foreign rum. -
currency act
Prohibited the printing and issuance of paper money by Colonial legislatures and also set up fines and penalties for members of Colonial government who disobeyed, -
stamp act
It taxed newspapers, almanacs, pamphlets, broadsides, legal documents, dice, and playing cards. (Anything that needed a stamp). -
townshend act
Initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. Colonists organized boycotts of British goods to pressure Parliament to repeal the Townshend Acts. -
declaratory act
The Declaratory Act, passed by Parliament on the same day the Stamp Act was repealed, stated that Parliament could make laws binding the American colonies "in all cases whatsoever." In the colonies -
boston massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. -
boston tea party
It was an act of protest in which a group of 60 American colonists threw 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to agitate against both a tax on tea (which had been an example of taxation without representation) and the perceived monopoly of the East India Company. -
intolerable act
A series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. Colonists responded to the Intolerable Acts with a show of unity, -
quartering act of 1774
This new act allowed royal governors, rather than colonial legislatures, to find homes and buildings to quarter or house British soldiers. This act was only slightly different from the Quartering Act from before. -
quebec act