APUSH Period 3 Path to Revolution

Proclamation Line of 1763

prohibited colonists from settling west of the Appalachian mountains

Stamp Act of 1765

This act required colonists to pay for an official stamp, or seal, when they bought paper items.

Salutary Neglect

An English policy of not strictly enforcing laws in its colonies

Townshend Acts

A tax that the British Parliament passed in 1767 that was placed on leads, glass, paint and tea

Sugar Act of 1764

An act that raised tax revenue in the colonies for the crown. It also increased the duty on foreign sugar imported from the West Indies....enforced the Navigation Acts

Tea Act of 1773

Gave the East India Company an unfair business advantage over colonial merchants.

Quartering Act

1765 - Required the colonials to provide food, lodging, and supplies for the British troops in the colonies.

Intolerable Acts

A series of laws set up by Parliament to punish Massachusetts for its protests against the British

Boston Massacre

The first bloodshed of the American Revolution (1770), as British guards at the Boston Customs House opened fire on a crowd killing five Americans