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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
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