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Stamp Act
A Bristish law of 1765 placing a tax on various colonial materials and requiring that these materials bear a stamp showing that the tax was paid.
Taxes on legal papers, advertisements, newspapers, almanacs, calendars, and playing cards.
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Currency
Anything circulating money
Paper money
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Currency Act
A British law of 1764 prohibiting colonists from issuing their own money and requiring colonial debts to be paid in gold or silver
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Sugar Act
A British law of 1764 establishing a revenue producing tax on sugar, coffee, indigo, and molasses.
Pushed by George Grenville in 1764, produced revenue for Britain.
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Navigation Acts
A seriers of laws passed in the 1660's protecting English colonial trade.
Designed to give England a large share of profits from colonial trade
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Revenue
The income of a government
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George Grenville
- British prime minister
- Decided that American colonists should help pay the war debts and for the colonists to pay half the cost of keeping British army in North America.
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Proclamation of 1763
an act by King George III of Britain forbidding settlement west of the Appalachian (Allegheny) Mountains and mainting government control over trade with the Indians
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Proclamation
- an official public announcement
- (reffering to the Proclamation of 1763)
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Pontiac's War
- an unsuccessful attempt by several Native American tribes to stop British colonists from settling west of the Appalachian (Allegheny) Mountains
- raised doubts about western settlement
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Militia
- a citizen army
- group of citizens trains as soldiers
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Treaty of Paris 1763
an agreement in which Britain gained control of all French territory east of Mississippi River except New Orleans, ending the French and Indian Wars
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King George III
in 1763 he issued a proclamation
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