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Navigation Acts
Were acts that were designed to tighten the government's control over trade between England, its colonies, and the rest of the world. -
Sugar Act
An act that was a tax on sugar and molasses. This act was also known as the American Revenue Act. -
Currency Act
An act that Acts sought to protect British merchants and creditors from being paid in depreciated colonial currency. -
Stamp Act
An act that was published by the British parliament that made tax on stamps. This usually puts tax on newspapers and local and commercial documents. -
Quartering Act
This act stated that only troops were quartered in barracks and then if there wasn't enough room in those barrcks they would stay in homes and inns. -
Declaratory Act
It stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain. -
Townshed Acts
Were a series of laws/acts that passed by the British government on the American colonies. -
Tea Act
The British Parliament was signed to bail out the British East India Company from bankruptcy by lowering the tax of tea. -
Boston Tea Party
A group of Boston colonists were disguised as Indians that were on British ships that threw several hundred chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. This event created an Act called the Tea Act. -
Quebec Act
An act that gave the French Canadians complete religious freedom and restored the French form of civil law.
