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Sugar Act- April 5, 1764
There was tax on importing sugar, wine, and coffee. In 1733, the Molasses tax started. The sugar tax was half molasses tax but colonists refused to pay it because the Parliament passed the Sugar act to counter smuggling foreign sugar. It would allow royal officials to seize colonial cargo with little cause. The Sugar act was designed to benefit England at expense of American colonies. -
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Quartering Act- March 24, 1765
- Now everywhere, colonists must supply British troops with living quarters, bedding, food, beer, cider and rum. The British reason was that most soldiers quartered in public buildings, but when they were always from cities, they would need to be in private homes. The colonists were furious and they thought this was another attempt to limit freedom.
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Stamp Act- March 22, 1765
The Stamp act was the first direct tax. It requires stamp tax on all legal documents, newspapers and all other printed material. This tax was only impacting a small percentage of the Colonial population, but the ones that did affect were rich and educated. The stamp act had been the first significant colonial resistance to the British rule. In late May of 1765, the Virginia House of Burgasses denied the Parliament's right to tax the colonies under the Stamp act. -
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Proclamation of 1763- October 7, 1763
This starts by the British Parliament announcing that no settlement can take place West of the Appalachian Mountains.The Native Americans were dissatisfied with the British rule. It was led by the Ottawan leader called Pontiac. This all started in May when the frontier forts started to attack. The Native Americans would trick settlers to gain access to forts, and then capture inhabitants. This lasted for 34 years and in July 25, 1766, Pontiac signed the treaty. -
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Navigation Acts
The Navigation Act was an act which was passed by England so they would have control of trade and they would get wealthier, it was first passed in 1660 and it determined that all colonists had to use ships that were built by the British for all their trade. -
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Townshend Acts- June 12- July 2, 1767
Four acts were passed by the British Parliament in an attempt to assert what it considered to be its historic right to exert authority over the colonies through suspension of a recalcintrant representative assembly. Led, glass, paper, paint and tea would have to be taxed when imported into the colonies. This was impacted by the Boycott. The British colonists named the acts after Charles Townshend. -
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Declaratory Act- March 18, 1766
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Quebec Act
The Quebec Act was a law that recognized the Roman Catholic church as the established one in Quebec. Quebec's boundaries were mainly extended into the Ohio Valley. This act was passed on June 22, 1774. -
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Massachusetts Government Act, 1763
The British took over Massachusetts and appointed royal governor. Great Britain was the one who chose the governor which took away the power of the colonists. -
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Boston Port Act
In 1774, the British Parliament passes the Boston Act, closing the port of Boston and applying for the city's residents to pay 1 million of worth tea that was dumped into Boston during the Boston Tea party. In June, Gage sealed the ports of Boston using the British navy and leaving the merchants terrified by an approach leading to an economic disaster. -
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Administration of Justice Act
This act was passed on the same day as the Boston Port Act, which both were part of the intolerable acts, and this act was mainly passed to protect the British officials from the capital offences. This was an intolerable act because as the Americans didn't have anything against the British officials and because of this, the colonists would have less rights and the British had less punishment. -
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Tea Act
The British was guaranteed a monopoly that would get them out of debt which this was passed by the parliament on May 10, 1773. As this company was the only legal company that they could sell to the colonists, they increased the cost of the tea and the colonists weren't happy about it so this lead to piracy. This lead to other individuals stealing tea from the British ships and sell them at a lower cost. With this happening, the Tea Act didn't succeed.