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Sugar Act
the first law ever passed by Parliament to raise tax revenue in the colonies for England -
Stamp Act and Stamp Act Congress
The stamp act required colonists to use stamped paper to certify payment of taxes on goods like newspapers, legal documents, and diplomas. 27 delegates from 9 colonies met in New York City for the Stamp Act Congress of 1765. The members wrote a statement of their rights and grievences and requested the King and Parliament to repeal the legislation. -
Quartering Act of 1765
required certain colonies to provide food and quarters for British troops. -
Declaratory Act
Parliament passed the Declaratory Act, which reinstated England's right to rule absolutely over the American colonies. -
Townshend Acts
Parliament placed a light import tax on glass, white lead, paper, paint, and tea. -
Boston Massacre
a crowd of 60 townspeople attacked 10 redcoats and the redcoats opened fired on the civilians, killing/wounding 11 of them. Led to the repealing all Townshend Acts except tea tax. -
Committees of Correspondence
created by the American colonies in order to maintain communication with one another. They were organized in the decade before the Revolution when communication between the colonies became essential. -
Boston Tea Party
The British East India Company had 17 million pounds of overstocked tea. The London government would lose tax revenue if the company collapsed so they allowed them to sell tea to Colonies for a discounted price. The colonists thought this was a trick to get them to pay for import taxes so people of Boston, disguised as Indians, boarded the ships and dumped the tea into the sea. -
Intolerable Acts
Parliament released this act to restrict the colonists' rights due to the Boston Tea Party. The laws restricted town meetings and required officials who killed colonists in duty to be sent to Britain for trial where charges would be pressed. -
First Continental Congress
12 of the 13 colonies (excluding Georgia) sent men to the convention. This was a convention (consultative body) more than a congress (legislative body). This congress made the Declaration of Rights and created The Association which called for a complete boycott of British goods: nonimportation, nonexportation, and nonconsumption.
