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Navigation Acts
This act directed the trade between England and the colonies. People who wanted to trade had to use foreign ships. People started ignoring the laws and started smuggling goods. -
Proclomation of 1763
This act set the Appalachian mountains as a temporary boundary for the colonies. Colonists could not push onward west. This angered many people becuase some people had already purchased land west of the Appalachain Mountains. -
Sugar Act
This tax was internal, that charged colonists everytime sugar, wine, etc. was imported. The British wanted more money to security in the colonies from the tax. Colonists lost money because they had to pay less before the act. -
Stamp Act
This was a direct tax that required people who had printed documents to have special paper from London and a revenue stamp on the paper. One purpose was to help pay for the troops stationed in North America. The colonists thought the act was unconstitutional and one outcome was mob violence. -
Declatory Act
This was an act that repealed the Stamp Act and it declared British Authority to make and pass laws for the colonies. The colonists were infuriated with the idea that the British got to make their laws. This became a very important event for the buildup of the Revolutionary War. -
Townshend Act
This act put taxes on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, and tea. One outcome of this act was that the Boston Massacre happened after the Townshend Act. -
Tea Act
A tea act passed by Parliment that taxed people whoi imported or bought tea. This was not to raise revenue in the colonies. A big spark to the Revolutionary movemnt in Boston. Caused the "Boston Tea Party" -
Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts)
A patriot name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliment. These acts stripped Massachusetts of self-government and historic rights triggering outrage in the 13 Colonies -
Quebec Act
An act of the parliment of Great Britain setting procedures of governace in the province of Quebec. Colonists saw this as a new model for British Colonial administration, which would strip the colonies of their elected-assembly.
