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1651- 1733 Navigation Act- What was Britian do? How did the Colonies respond?
- B: English laws to restrict colonial trade
- C: Largely ignored the laws because they were not enforced (salutary neglect)
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1763 Proclamation Line- What was Britian do? How did the Colonies respond?
- B: English proclamation barring the colonists from settling west of the Appalachians
- C: Resented the restriction; moved west anyways
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1764 Sugar Act- What was Britian do? How did the Colonies respond?
- B: Reduced tax on foreign sugar; called for strict enforcement
- C: Continued smuggling sugar
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1765 Stamp Act- What was Britian do? How did the Colonies respond?
- B: A tax on virtually any good written on paper
- C: 1) Mass protest
- 2) Sons of Liberty (leader Sammuel Adams)
- 3) Stamp Act Congress violent protest (tarded and feathered people)
- 4) Boycott (All British goods) until Stamp Act
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1766- What was Britian do? How did the Colonies respond?
- B: 1) Stamp Act repealed due to pressure from British merchants
- 2) Declaratory Act stated that Parliament had right to tax the colonists in the future
- C: Celebrated, but worried that new taxes were around the corner
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1767 Townshend Act- What was Britian do? How did the Colonies respond?
- B: A tax on lead, tea, paint, paper and glass
- C: Boycott of British goods; large scale riots and agitation by colonial mobs
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1768- What was Britian do? How did the Colonies respond?
- B: 4 regiments occupy Boston
- C: Bostonians start out being good, try to show that the British are not there to maintain order, but to plunder their shipping
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1770 Boston Massacre- What was Britian do? How did the Colonies respond?
- B: British troops defend themselves, killing 5 Boston protestors
- C: Revere propaganda; colonists begin to see Boston's crisis as their own
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1770- What was Britian do? How did the Colonies respond?
- B: Parliament repeals the Townshend Act duties- except for the tax on tea
- C: Relatively quiet time as colonists pay taxes on sugar and tea
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1772 (1)- What was Britian do? How did the Colonies respond?
- B: Crackdown on New England smuggling
- C: Angry Rhode Islanders burn the English customs ship the Gaspee after it ran aground
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1772 (2)- What was Britian do? How did the Colonies respond?
- B: Royal decree; royal governors and judges to be paid directly by the king
- C: Sam Adams organizes first committee of correspondence (intercolonial communication network)
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1773- B: Tea Act/ C: Boston Tea Party- What was Britian do? How did the Colonies respond?
- B: Parliament grants tax- exempt status to the British East India Co.
- C: Concerned that the EIC would become a monopoly, the Sons of Liberty dumped a boatload of EIC tea into Boston Harbor to protest
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1774- B: Coercive Acts/ C: Dubbed the act the Intolerable Acts- What was Britian do? How did the Colonies respond?
- B: Closed Boston Harbor
- Instituted martial law (military is in control)
- Made General Gage royal governor
- C: Established an embargo with Britain (stopped all trade)
- Formed the First Continental Congress
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