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An official statement made by King George III that stated that American colonists could not move west of the Appalachian Mountains
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This act required colonists to buy paper goods such as newspapers and playing cards that had an official stamp from Great Britain
What is the Stamp Act of 1765?
This act was designed to raise revenue to help Britain get out of debt after the French and Indian war
What is the Stamp Act or Sugar Act?
As a result of this act, the Sons of Liberty were formed in order to coordinate protests around the colonies
What was the Stamp Act of 1765?
A tax on imported goods is known as a...
An act that gave the British East India Company complete control over all tea sales in the colonies
What was the Tea Act of 1773?
As part of these acts, the British closed the port of Boston and replaced the Massachusetts governor with a military general
What is the Intolerable/Coercive Acts of 1774?
This British policy was created to avoid further conflict with Native Americans in the Ohio River Valley
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
What is the Tea Act of 1773?
Serious crimes committed against ones own country is known as...
What is "treason"?
A tax on imported sugar and molasses
What is the Sugar Act of 1764?
This Act required colonists to provide food and housing to British soldiers stationed int he American colonies
What is the Quartering Act of 1765?
This act was passed by Parliament in an effort to cover the costs of keeping an army in the American colonies
What were the Townshend Acts?
In response to this act, colonists began smuggling goods like sugar and molasses
What is the Sugar Act of 1764?
British laws that required colonists to ONLY trade with Great Britain were known as...
What are the Navigation Acts?
A violent conflict that broke out between American colonists and British soldiers in the streets of Boston that resulted in 5 colonists being shot and killed
What is the Boston Massacre?
This act placed a tax on common goods such as glass, lead, paper, paint, and tea
What is the Townshend Acts of 1767?
This act was created in order to help the struggling British East India Company to boost the British economy
What is the Tea Act of 1773?
As a result of this act, colonists began boycotting paper goods like newspapers and playing cards
What is the Stamp Act of 1765?
A period of time in which Great Britain relaxed its enforcement of the Navigation Acts in the American colonies
What is "salutary neglect"?
As part of the Coercive/Intolerable Acts, the British passed this act which closed the Port of Boston
What is the Boston Port Act?
After repealing the Stamp Act, Parliament passed this act which state that Great Britain had the power to make all decisions in regards to the American colonies
What is the Declaratory Act?
This series of acts was designed to punish and isolate the colony of Massachusetts from the rest of the colonies in hopes of discouraging colonial unity
What is the Intolerable (Coercive) Acts?
The First Continental Congress was a meeting between representatives from 12 of the 13 colonies in order to discuss their discontent with British policies. This Congress met in response to which Act?
What is the Intolerable Acts of 1774?
What is "coercive"?