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Stamp Acts
The stamp Acts put a tax on newspapers, pamphlets, legal documents, and playing cards, etc. When this policy was enacted, colonists broke into protest, claiming that there should be "No Taxation without Representation." The British government coupled the repeal of the Stamp Act with the Declaratory Act, a reaffirmation of its power to pass any laws over the colonists that it saw fit. However, the colonists held firm to their view that Parliament could not tax them. -
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The proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation Line of 1763 was a British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide. The colonists resented that the British government was restricting their settlements and taking control of the west out of their hands. The British made an effort to enforce the proclamation, periodically stopping settlers as they headed west and forcibly removing others. -
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Sugar act
The sugar act reduced tax on molasses, while also listing more foreign goods including, sugar and coffee among other things. The sugar act was put into motion at about the same time as the stamp act was, so the reaction from the colonists was basically the same. They were mad about an unjust tax with no parliament. -
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Townshend acts
The Townshend acts were taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. In response, the colonists discouraged the the buying of British imports, while the british sent navy and military to enforce the acts. -
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Coercive acts
the Coercive acts were a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. The colonists met the act with strong resistance, starting the first ever continental congress over the acts.