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Proclomation of 1763
The purpose of the proclamation was to organize Great Britain's new North American empire and to stabilize relations with Native North Americans through regulation of trade, settlement, and land purchases on the western frontier. -
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Sugar Act
A law that was passed to lower tax on molasses imported by the colonists and to stop smuggling, This angered colonists, they felt their rights were violated. -
Currency Act
This act prohibited any colony from making different currencies not approved by the king. Colonist felt that more and more power has been taken away from them. -
Stamp Act
Another political CartoonThis Act taxed colonists on most printed materials. This was to help pay for troops stationed in North America. Colonists felt that it was a violation of their rights as englishmen to be taxed without their consent. -
Quartering Act
Colonies of North America had to pay for houses for soldiers to stay in and sometime forced out of their homes. The colonists were furious with this act. "Taxation without representation is tyranny." - James Otis -
Stamp Act Congress
was a meeting in New York City of representatives from some of the British colonies of North America. They discussed and acted upon the Stamp Act recently passed. -
Declaratory Act
Picture is a political cartoon The government repealed the Stamp Act because boycotts were hurting British trade and used the declaration to justify the repeal -
Townshed Act
was to raise money in the colonies to pay the salaries of governors and judges so that they would be independent of colonial rule, to create a more effective means of enforcing you to cooperate with trade regulations, to punish the province of New York for failing to cooperate with the 1765 Quartering Act, and to establish the precedent that the British Parliament had the right to tax the colonies. Consisted of 5 laws: the Revenue Act of 1767, the Indemnity Act, the Commissioners of Customs Act
