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The Sugar Act
A modified version of molasses act to raise revenue. Reduced tax on molasses and laws were more strictly enforced. MAde more foreign goods be taxed, like surgar. -
The Stamp Tax
The tax was imposed on every newspaper of document printed/used in colonies. Many things colonists needed were taxed. -
Non-importation agreements
Series of commercial restrictions to protest British revenue policies. Stamp act triggered it first. Merchants collectively embargoed british imports. -
The Stamp Act Congress
Meeting in NY between colony representatives. Discussed a unified protest against Stamp Act. 6/9 delegates signed a petition against parliaments taxation. -
The Quartering Act
Required colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided. If these were full, they colonists were required to house them in public places like inns and alehouses. If public places were full, soldiers could be housed in private homes and barns. -
Declaratory Act
Repeal of Stamp Act and lessening of Sugar Act. Declaration stated parliments athority over the over the colonies. -
Townshend Acts
Taxation on goods, made colonists mad. Parliment sent troops in to enforce policies, raised tensions even more. -
The Boston Massacre
Street brawl between colonists and British solider. Turned dealdy, killing 5 colonists. Made colonists more angry. -
Committees of Correspondence
Small governments that uniteed partiot leaderrs before revolution. Rallied the colonists. -
Boston Tea Party
Political protest. Sons of Liberty dumped crates of taxed British tea into the harbor. Made Britain angry. -
Intolerable Acts
Britiains respone to tea party, resticed self-governance in colonies. Outrageded colonitis and was key part of starting the revolution. -
Quebec Acts
Gave French Canadians religous freedom and ciivil law. Was influential to keeping Canada loyal to crown. Colonists considered it part of the intolerable acts because land and rights were given to their neighbore.