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Proclamation of 1763
No Settlement in the Ohio River Valley -
Sugar Act
Tax on Molasses - Smuggling and bribery of British Officials -
Stamp Act
Taxes on legal documents, causing protests and riots, -
Townsend Act
Taxes on tea, lead, glass, and paint...colonists boycott British goods. -
Quartering Act
British soldiers move into colonists' homes, angering them -
Boston Massacre
Five colonists are killed in Boston -
Tea Act
Reduced price of tea, colonists felt they were being
tricked into paying a "tax". -
Intolerable Acts
Response to Boston Tea Party - shuts down Boston -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
Minutemen and British face-off...some fires the first shot