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| Definition | Term |
|---|---|
| an act of the British Parliament in 1765 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. Colonial opposition led to the act's repeal in 1766 and helped encourage the revolutionary | Stamp Act |
| Acts that placed an indirect tax on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea, all of which had to be imported from Britain. Goal was to set precedent of British taxation on colonies | Townshend Acts |
| confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which nine British soldiers shot several of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them verbally and throwing various projectiles | Boston Massacre |
| Group of Acts from the British parliament that included the Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act, and the Quartering Act | Intolerable or coercive acts |
| Rule issued by the British crown at the end of the French and Indian War, set territorial limits on where European colonists could settle in America. | Proclamation of 1763 |