Acts of Taxation
This 1764 act taxed molasses and was intended to raise money to pay British war debts.
What is the Sugar Act?
The Proclamation Line was issued in this year.
What is 1763?
Colonists responded to the Sugar Act by doing this.
What is protesting?
The purpose of the Proclamation Line was to prevent this.
This event left 5 colonists dead and increased anti-British feelings.
What is the Boston Massacre?
Passed in 1765, this act required colonists to buy special paper for legal documents, newspapers, and licenses.
What is the Stamp Act?
This act was passed on March 22, 1765, and led to violent protests.
What is the Stamp Act?
Colonists violently attacked tax collectors in response to this 1765 law.
What is the Stamp Act?
The Sugar Act was designed to help Britain do this after the French and Indian War.
What is raise revenue/pay war debts?
The Proclamation Line restricted this type of colonial movement.
What is westward expansion?
These 1767 laws taxed items like glass, paint, paper, lead, and tea.
What are the Townshend Acts?
This event happened in 1770 and was used as propaganda by the colonists.
What is the Boston Massacre?
The Boston Tea Party was a direct response to this law.
What is the Tea Act?
The Stamp Act aimed to help cover the cost of this.
What is stationing British troops?
The Boston Tea Party led Britain to do this to Boston and Massachusetts.
What is punish them with new laws?
This 1773 act gave the British East India Company exclusive rights to sell directly to the colonies.
What is the Tea Act?
In this year, the Tea Act was passed, and the Boston Tea Party took place.
What is 1773?
In response to the Quartering Act, colonists did this.
What is refuse to comply and protest?
The British passed the Townshend Acts to show control and to raise this.
What is money (revenue)?
The Tea Act caused colonists to believe they were being tricked into accepting this.
What is the tea tax?
These 1774 laws were meant to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party by limiting colonial freedoms.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This act, passed in 1765, required colonists to house and supply British troops.
What is the Quartering Act?
The First Continental Congress formed as a reaction to this set of punitive laws.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
The British passed the Intolerable Acts to punish colonists for this act of civil disobedience.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The Townshend Acts caused these coordinated economic actions by colonists.
What are boycotts of British goods?