An Act in which colonists were forced to house soldiers
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What year was the tea act passed?
1773
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What is the Stamp Act?
An Act in which colonists had to buy special stamps for all paper products
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When did the Sugar Act occur?
1764
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How did the colonists react to these Acts?
They found them so unbearable and they boycotted the Intolerable Acts by refusing to buy British tea and other products
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Why did the colonists dislike the Quartering Act?
Colonists had to pay for food, care and clothing for any soldier that came knocking on their door
The ultimate reaction was to write a No Quartering Act into the Bill of Rights
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How did the colonists react to this act?
They created the Boston Tea Party: they dumped all of the tea into the river
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What is a boycott?
An organized campaign to refuse to buy certain products
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Why did smuggling goods become very common?
There were high taxes on molasses and sugar because of the Sugar Act
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What four laws, known as the intolerable acts, were passed?
1. Closed the port of Boston
2. Laws increased the powers of the royal governor
3. Anyone who killed a british official would be put on trial
4. Strengthened the Quartering Act
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What year did the Quartering Act start and end?
1765-1776
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What is monopoly?
Total control of a market for a certain product
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Why did the Stamp Act occur?
It was a way in recouping some of the money expended during the French and Indian War
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Where did the Sugar Act mostly take place?
Great Britain
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What did the British call these Acts?
The Coercive Acts
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Why did the Quartering Act occur?
It was a way to pay back for the soldiers who fought