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Navigation Acts
In 1651, the British were the first known navigation act, declaring that only English ships would be allowed to bring goods into England and that the North American colonies could only export their commodities, such as tobacco and sugar to England. -
end of salutary neglect
The end of salutary neglect is one of the main causesof the american revolution. this policy effectively ended after the french and indian war in 1763 when brittish made the decision to reinforce the navigation acts, other trade restrictions and regulations and place taxes on the colonies. -
Intolerable acts
these were the acts that were passed by the british parliament to punish the colony of massachusetts bay for the boston tea party. -
The sugar act
The sugar act cut the duty on forgien molasses from 6 to 3 pence per gallon, retained a high duty on foregin refined sugar, andprohibited the impration of all forgirn rum. -
Sons of liberty
The sons of liberty, a well-organixed patriot paramillitary politicals organization shouded in secrecy, was established to the undermine british rule in colonial america and was infuential organizing and carring out the boston tea party. -
The stamp act
The britsh needed to station a large army in north america as a cosequence and on 22 macrch 1765 the british parliament passed the stamp act, which sought to raise money to pay for this army through a tax on all legal and offical papers and publications circulating in the colonies. -
Townshend act
The townshend act was to help pay the expenses involved in governing the american colonies, parliament passed thetownshed acts, which initated taxes on glass lead, paint, paper, and tea. -
Boston massacre
seven british soldiers fired into a croud of volatile bostonians, killing five, wounding another six, and angering an entire colony. -
Boston tea party
The boston tea party was an act protest in which a group of 60 amrican colonist thre 342 chessts of the tea into boston harbor to agitate against both tax tea which had been an exanmple of taxation with out represntation and the perceived monopoly of the east india company. -
Proclamation anglo
American colonists settled in lands acquired from the French following the French and Indian War. King Georg Roman numeral 3lll issued a royal proclamation establishing a new administrative structure for the recently acquired territories in North America. He also established new rules and protocols for future relations with First Nations people.