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Proclamation of 1763
- Prohibited american colonies from settling north of the appellation.
- Become one of the corner stones of North america law in the united states
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Sugar Act 1764
- Called the plantation act
- Ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses
- enlarged British responsibilities
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Townsend act
Were laws passed by British government on the american colonies. They placed new taxes and took away some freedoms from the colonists. -
Currency Act 1764
- prohibited the colonists from designating paper currency
- used for payment of debt
- extended to all 13 colonies
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Stamp Act
- Imposed on all american colonies
- required them to pay taxes on every piece of printed paper
- even playing cards were taxed
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Townsend act
Was a series of laws passed by the British government on the american colonies. They placed new taxes on imports of paper, paint, lead, glass and tea. -
Boston massacre
Was a deadly riot. It started as street brawl between american colonist and a lone British soldier but quickly led to a chaotic bloody slaughter. -
Boston massacre
Was a deadly riot. It started as a street brawl between american colonialist and a lone British soldier but quickly got out of hand and it became chaotic and a bloody slaughter. -
Tea act
Trying to save the troubled enterprise the British parliament pass the tea act. this granted company the right to ship tea directly to the colonies. -
Tea act
The act granted the company the right to ship tea directly to the colonies with out first landing in England and to commission agents who would have a sole right to sell tea. -
Committees of correspondence
Was the american colonies first institution for maintaing communication with one another. They were organized in the decades before the revolution when the deteriorating relationship with Great Britain. -
Coercive acts
A series of laws passed by British Parliament. Relating to Britain's colonies in North america. It was passed in response to the Boston tea party. -
committees of correspondence
Was made to encourage opposition to Britain stiffening of customs enforcement and prohibition of American paper money. -
First Continental Congress
Was a government of the 13 colonies that was later used in the united states.They first met in 1774 in reaction the the coercive acts. -
Lexington and concord
The tensions had been building for many years between resident of the american colonies and the British authorities mostly in Massachusetts.
