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proclamation
King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
sugar act
also known as the American Revenue Act or the American Duties Act, was a revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on -
the stamp act
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed. -
the declaratory act
an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act. -
the townshend revenue act
were a series of British acts passed beginning in 1767 and relating to the British American colonies in North America. The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program. -
the boston non-importation agreement
a formal collective decision made by Boston based merchants and traders not to import or export items to Britain. -
the boston massacre
On the cold, snowy night of March 5, 1770, a mob of American colonists gathers at the Customs House in Boston and begins taunting the British soldiers guarding the building. ... The Sons of Liberty, a Patriot group formed in 1765 to oppose the Stamp Act, -
the gaspee affair
The Gaspee Affair was a very significant event in the lead-up to the American Revolution. Gaspee was a British customs schooner that had been enforcing the Navigation Acts in and around Newport, Rhode Island in 1772 -
the boston tea party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773 -
boston port act
the Punitive Acts or the Coercive Acts) that were designed to secure Great Britain's jurisdictions over her American dominions.
