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Navagation Acts
-Set to direct the rade between England and the colonies
-It ws first accepted but then hated so people started smuggling -
Proclamation
-To prevent fighting, it set the Appalachian Mountains as a temproary western boundary for the colonies
-Speculators were furious with the British because they had already bought land -
Sugar Act
-Lowerd tax's and let officers sieze goods from smugglers without going to court
-Felt it violated their right to be sercure in their home and their right to a jury trial -
Stamp Act
-Placed a tax on almost all printed material, so it had to have a stamp
--The Virginaassembly passed a resolution
-In boston Samuel Adams helped start an organization called the sons of liberty -
Declaratory Act
-Stated the Parliament had the right to tax and make decisions for the British colonies -
Townshend Acts
-New taxes on imported goods such as glass, tea, and paper
-The colonists believed their own representatives had the right to tax them -
Tea Act
-Allowed the company sole control of the trade for the trade for tea in america
-Colonial merchants called for anouther boycott -
Corcive Acts
-To punish the people of Massachusetts for their ressistance to Bristish law
-Closed the cboston harbor
-Took away certain rights
-Banned most town meetings in New England -
Quebec Act
-Set up a gov. for quebec and gave quebec the land west of the Appalachians
-Colonists made their own laws
