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The stamp act
This act of 1765 was an act of the parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax of British colonies be produce on stamp paper -
The sugar act
The sugar act is also known has the plantation act or revenue act the British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch. -
The quartering act
His act would force the people who lived there to house and feed the British soldiers and they couldn’t do anything about it and the soldiers picked where they stayed -
The declaratory act
The declaratory act proclaimed the parliament had hath and of right ought to have full power and authority to make laws and statues of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people fo america -
Townshend act
The Townshend act were a series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies in 1767 they placed new taxes and took away some freedoms from the colonists -
Boston massacre
The Boston massacre was a deadly riot that occurred on march 5 1770 on king street on Boston it began as a street brawl -
Boston tea party
The boston tea party was a political and mercantile protest by the sons of liberty in ostensibly Massachusetts -
The intolerable act
The intolerable acts were punitive laws passed by the British parliament in the 1774 after they boston tea party the laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the tea party protest in reaction to changes in taxation -
Boston port act
The boston port act was an act of the parliament of Great Britain which became laws on march 31 1774 and took effect on June 1 1774 it was one of five measures that enacted during the spring of 1774 to punish boston for the boston tea party
