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Navigation Acts
Was a series of laws that restricted the use of foreign ships for trade between Britain and its colonies. -
Sugar Act
Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act -
Stamp Act
The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. -
Townshend Act
Series of four acts passed by the British Parliament in an attempt to assert what it considered to be its historic right to exert authority over the colonies -
Boston Massacre
It was between a the partiots, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. -
Proclamation of 1763
Issued by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
Boston Tea Party
Was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty -
Intolerable Acts
Series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. -
Lexington & Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War -
Quartering Act
British Parliament met and finally passed a Quartering Act for the Americans.
