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Proclamation of 1763
prohibited Anglo-American colonists from settling on lands acquired from the French following the French and Indian War. -
Currency Act
To protect British merchants and creditors from depreciated colonial currency, this act regulated currency, abolishing the colonies' paper currency in favor of a system based on the pound sterling. -
Sugar act
The act increased duties on non-British goods shipped to the colonies. -
Quartering Act 1765
The 1765 act actually prohibited British soldiers from being quartered in private homes, but it did make the colonial legislatures responsible for paying for and providing for barracks or other accommodations to house British regulars. -
Stamp Act
to help pay for British troops stationed in the colonies during the Seven Years' War -
Declaratory Act
or the better securing the dependency of his majesty's dominions in America upon the crown and parliament of Great Britain -
Townshend Act
To help pay the expenses involved in governing the American colonies, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, which initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. -
Boston Massacre
British sentries guarding the Boston Customs House shot into a crowd of civilians, killing three men and injuring eight, two of them mortally. -
Boston Tea party
incident in which 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown from ships into Boston Harbor by American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians. -
Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)
known as the Intolerable Acts in the American colonies, were a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Part -
Quartering Act 1774
gave colonial governors the right to requisition unoccupied buildings to house British troops. It applied to all of British America. Read more about the Quartering Act of 1765. -
Quebec Act
The Quebec Act allowed French Catholics to obtain good jobs in the government. It also let the French practice their style of law. It gave more power to the Catholic Church too. Thanks to the Quebec Act, the Church could collect tithes (money) again