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Proclamation and sugar act
Stamp act and Lexington and concord
Boston tea party, intolerable acts, and first continental congress
Declaratory act
100
Event of proclamation of 1763
A law that said colonists could not move west of the Appalachian mountains
100
What was the cause of the stamp act
Britain is still in debt
100
What was the first continental congress
The meeting of colonies in Philadelphia ( except Georgia. Too far to travel)
100
What was the cause of the declaratory act
Parliament repeals the stamp act
200
Cause of the proclamation of 1763
Britain wanted to prevent fighting between the colonists and Indians in the ohio river valley
200
What was the effect of the stamp act
Colonists protest and boycott British goods
200
What was the intolerable acts
Punishments such as: Port of Boston shut down until tea is paid off (no trading) Only 1 town meeting a year ( no one could get together and plan ambushes) New quartering act- colonists have to house soldiers in their home
300
What was the sugar act
A tax on sugar and molasses imports
300
What was the stamp act
A tax on legal documents (marriage license, wills, etc.) and paper goods (newspaper, playing cards)
300
What was the Boston tea party
Colonists throw tea overboard
400
What was the effect of the sugar act
Smuggle in molasses from the west indies
400
What was the battle of Lexington and concord
First battles of the rev war
400
What was the cause of the boston tea party
Tea act- east India tea co. can sell tea directly to the colonists. Colonial tea merchants lost jobs.
500
What was the cause of the Lexington and concord battle
British march to capture Sam Adams (lex) and colonial weapons (con)