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French and Indian war, Townshend Act, Quartering act., Sugar Act, Stamp…
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Townshend Act
The Townshend act initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea
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American colonists, who had no representation in Parliament, saw the Acts as an abuse of power.
Quartering act.
requiring colonial authorities to provide food, drink, quarters, fuel, and transportation to British forces
required the American colonies to provide quarters (lodging) to British forces stationed in their towns or villages.
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Sugar Act
cut the duty on foreign molasses from 6 to 3 pence per gallon,
The act kept the high duty on refined foreign sugar, prevented foreign rum importation,
It affected Madeira, the Azores, the Canary Islands, and the French West Indies (Guadelupe, Martinique and Santo Domingo (now Haiti)
Stamp act
It taxed newspapers, almanacs, pamphlets, broadsides, legal documents, dice, and playing cards
The act said that people in the American colonies had to use a stamp on newspapers and legal documents
raise revenue through direct taxation of all colonial commercial and legal papers, newspapers, pamphlets, cards, almanacs, and dice.
Sons of liberty
established to undermine British rule in colonial America and was influential in organizing and carrying out the Boston Tea Party.
They organized protests. Some members even destroyed property or used violence against British officials.
They accomplished rallied support for colonial resistance through the use of petitions, assemblies, and propaganda
Boycotts
Americans throughout the colonies began boycotting the importation of British goods in protest of increased taxation on everyday items
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In response, colonial protestors led by a group called the Sons of Liberty issued a call for a boycott.
Boston Tea party
They threw a value of the 342 chests of tea dumped in Boston Harbor in 1773 is approximately $1.7 million
Bohea, 15 of Congou, 10 of Souchong (all black teas), 60 of Singlo, and 15 of Hyson
o express to the world that the American colonists identified themselves as “Americans” and no longer considered themselves British subjects.
Boston massacre
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It marked the moment when political tensions between British soldiers and American colonists turned deadly.
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The tea act
The American colonists weren't allowed to buy tea from any other source. The Tea Act led directly to a protest known as the Boston Tea Party
The Coercive Acts of 1774, known as the Intolerable Acts in the American colonies, were a series of four acts
The act granted the East India Company a monopoly on the sale of tea that was cheaper than smuggled tea; its hidden purpose was to force the colonists to pay a tax of 3 pennies on every pound of tea.
Intolerable act
Four punitive measures enacted by the British Parliament in retaliation for acts of colonial defiance
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