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Navigation acts
English forced trade with the colonies. selling of raw materials and finished goods could only be done between the colonies -
Townshend Act
initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. -
Molasses Act
a British law passed in 1733 that taxed molasses, rum, and sugar imported into the North American colonies from non-British countries -
Fort Necessity
Washington Fort but it got taken down by the France and the Natives -
French and Indian War
August of 1756 - Feb of 1763 -
Sugar Act
a high duty on foreign refined sugar, and prohibited the importation of all foreign rum -
Stamp Act
sought to raise money to pay for this army through a tax on all legal and official papers and publications circulating in the colonies -
Declatory Acts
stated that Parliament could make laws binding the American colonies "in all cases whatsoever." -
Boston massacre
a crowd confronted eight British soldiers in the streets of the city. As the mob insulted and threatened them, the soldiers fired their muskets, killing five colonists -
Intolerable
a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. -
Quartering Act
Quartering Act, (1765), in American colonial history, the British parliamentary provision (actually an -
Administration of Justice
the process of maintaining law and order within a society through the use of force by the government -
Quebec Act
