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Proclamation of 1763
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued on October 7, 1763, by King George IIIstating that Great Britian can not pass French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War, In which it forbade settlers from settling past a line along the Appalachian Mountains. Colonist were upset because they could not go to the west. -
Sugar Act of 1764
A 1764 Act that put a three-cent tax on unfamilar sugar and increased taxes on coffee, indigo, and other kinds of wine. It banned the trade of rum and French wines. These taxes affected only a certain part of the population. Colonist were mad because they thought the tax was not good and reasonable. -
Currency Act of 1764
As a result of the low trade that resulted at the end of the French and Indian War, there was a shortage of money. Because of that Parliament passed the Currency Act of 1764, which banned paper currency as a legal product. They were find because it resulted to the end of the French and Indian War. -
Stamp Act of 1765
A law that imposed that the British Parliament on the colonies of British America, and it required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper made in London. The colonist did not see any advantage to them for this law. -
Qaurtering Act of 1765
The Quartering Act was a law passed by the British rulers in 1793 that forced colonial workers and their family to provide food, fuel, transportation and shelter to the British military while they were in America fighting. They were mad and protested and threanted to kill the king. -
Stamp Act of Congress
a meeting on October 7 and 25, 1765 in New York City, which had representatives from some of the British colonies in North America; it was the first meeting of the voted that then bacame elected representatives from several of the American colonies to make a protest against new British taxes because the American and colonist did not like the prices. -
Declaratory Act of 1766
Parliament passed the Stamp Act because the boycotts were hurting British trade and used the declaration of independence to pass the repeal and save face. The declaration said that Parliament's power was the same in America and in Britain and let Parliament's authority to pass laws that were happening on the American colonies. There was no reaction because their was to much celbration because the Stamp Act was repealed. -
Townsend Act of 1767
The Townshend Acts were a alot of acts passed in 1767 by The Parliament in Great Britain that was related to the British colonies in North America. The acts are named after Charles Townshend who proposed the program. Historians hardly used acts that include under the heading "Townshend Acts", but the Americans felt they had no power because they were not apart of the British Parliament.
