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Proclamation
After Britain won the Seven Year War, they signed a Royal Proclamation saying that the colonists couldn't setting in the west of the Appalachia. -
Sugar Act
It was a tax on sugar and molasses, and it was so Britain could get money from the colonists -
Currency Act
It was an extension of the Currency Act in 1751 and it made that they colonists couldn't print off any new paper money, and forbid them to pay off future debts. -
Stamp Act
It was a tax put on all paper products including, news paper, legal and commercial documents. -
Quartering Act
The act stated that the colonists had to house and feed British soldiers. -
Townshend Act
It was a tax put on imports or paper, tea, glass, paint, and lead. This act also took away some of the colonists freedoms. -
Boston Massacre
British soldiers were being harassed by Boston colonists and in self defense the British soldiers shot and killed five or six colonists. -
Tea Act
It was an act passed by Britain which allowed the tea ship to go directly to Boston so the East India Company wouldn't go bankrupt, but because of this the tax on tea went higher. -
Boston Tea Party
Boston colonists dumped tea off of three British ships into Boston Harbor because they were tired of paying the high taxes on British tea. -
Intolerable Acts
They were laws passes by Britain in order to punish Massachusetts for participating in the Boston Tea Party.