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Colonial Acts
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Proclamation Act 1763 | Said that the colonists could not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains |
| What caused the Proclamation Act of 1763? | Pontiac attacking the settlers? |
| What was the colonists' reaction to the Proclamation Act? | Similar to Bacon's Rebellion, enraging many farmers |
| Sugar Act 1764 | Raised taxes on imports of raw sugar (and silk, wine, coffee, pimento, and indigo) in an attempt to enforce the navigation acts |
| Colonist' reaction to the Sugar Act? | Claimed no due process of law and "no taxation without representation" |
| Currency Act 1764 | Banned the use of paper money in the colonies (because it lost it's value easily) |
| Colonists' Reaction of Currency Act | Enraged people who owned loans because they liked it's low values |
| Stamp Act 1765 | The first direct tax on the American Colonies. Taxed all printed materials |
| Colonists' Reaction to Stamp Act 1765 | Stamp Act Congress formed, Sons and Daughters of Liberty formed, an boycotted British Goods |
| Quartering Act 1765 | Colonists had to let British troops live in their homes or pay for their hotel fees |
| Colonists' Reaction Quartering Act | Colonists started writing pamphlets and protesting |
| Key People in Sons of Liberty | Sam Adams, John Hancock, and Paul Revere |
| Declaratory Act 1767 | Enacted the same day that the Stamp Act was removed. Stated that EVERYONE had to listen to the Acts that Parliament made |
| Townshend Acts 1767 | Taxes on glass, tea, lead, paper, an painy. Led to the revenue acts which enacted Writs of Assistance (taking your property with out your permission) |
| Colonists' Reaction to Townshend Acts | led to Boston Massacre |
| Boston Massacre 1770 | Crowd started heckling the British Soldiers, when a gunshot was eventually fired, causing the Soldiers to fire and kill a few colonists |
| Reaction form Boston Massacre | The Townshend act gets repealed, Paul Revere's art become very popular, helped organized other groups in the colonies |
| Tea Act of 1773 | English tea was sold at a lower price then Dutch Tea, undercutting the colonists profits. |
| Colonists' Reaction to Tea Act | led to Boston Tea Party |
| Boston Tea Party 1773 | Dumped 342 chests of British Tea into the Boston Harbor |
| Intolerable Acts 1774 | Consists of the Coercive Acts(4 acts) and the Quebec Acts(Only king could appoint governors to rule Quebec). |
| Coercive Acts | 1. Boston Harbor Acts (shut it down and brought troops to it) 2. Massachusetts Government Act (all council members were appointed by the governor) 3. Administration Justice Act (all jury trials are in England) 4. New Quartering Acts |
| Colonists' Reaction to Intolerable Acts | the First Continental Congress was formed and there were letters of correspondence between independence leaders of different colonies |
| What led to the American Revolution? | All of the taxes and acts |
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