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11 Cards in this Set
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Sugar Act 1764 |
Pay a tax for transporting Molasses and sugar |
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Quartering Act |
Required colonists to house soldiers and provide food and other goods |
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Stamp Act |
British taxed colonists to pay off military debts |
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Declaratory Act |
Parliament could do what they felt was good for the empire |
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Townshend Act |
Taxes on lead, paint, paper, glass & tea Made by Charles Townshend |
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Boston Massacre |
Colonists taunted, harassed and threw snowballs at troops - Troops open fired and killed five colonists |
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Tea Act |
Intended to raise revenue for British East Indies by giving them the tea monopoly |
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Boston Tea Party |
Colonists dressed as Native Americans raided ships in the Boston Harbor & dumped 340 chests of tea into the harbor |
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Intolerable Acts |
Punish Boston for the destruction of the tea Closed Boston Port and Massachusetts charter was voided |
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Proclamation of 1763 |
Prevent war - Land west of Appalachian Mountains were reserved for the Native Americans |
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Continental Congress |
colonies united to protect their collective rights & boycotted all british trade |
