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Currency Act
The Currency Act is the name of several Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain that regulated paper money issued by the colonies of British America. The Acts sought to protect British merchants and creditors from being paid in depreciated colonial currency -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act is a name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the 18th century. Parliament enacted them to order local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations. -
Stamp act
When they made everybody pay for stamps and required them to put them on magazines letters newspapers etc -
Declaratory
an act for the better securing the dependency of his Majesty's dominions in America upon the crown and parliament of Great Britain -
Townshend Revenue Act
Taxes on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, and tea were applied with the design of raising £40,000 a year for the administration of the colonies. The result was the resurrection of colonial hostilities created by the Stamp Act -
Boston Massacre
When the Red Coats couldn't stop the riots they started shooting people. -
Boston Tea Party
Leaders from Boston got on the ships and dumb all of the tea into the sea. They did it dressed as the Indians so that they were not immediately blamed. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. Its principal overt objective was to reduce the massive surplus of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive -
Quartering act of 1774
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Intollerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts was the Patriot name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament, in 1774 relating to Massachusetts after the Boston Tea party. In Great Britain, these laws were referred to as the Coercive Acts.
