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Townshend Act | laws passed that taxed goods such as glass, paper, paint, lead & tea |
Sugar Act | taxes on molasses |
Stamp Act | law that placed new duties on legal documants, and taxed newspapers, almanacs, playing cards, & dice |
Tea Act | law that let the British East India Company bypass tea merchants and sell directly to colonists |
Intolerable Acts | series of laws passed to punish Boston for the Tea Party |
Boycott | to refuse to buy certain goods or services |
Writs of Assistance | allowed officers to inspect a ship's cargo with a reason |
Quartering Act | Forced colonists to house British soldiers in their homes |
Navigation Acts | colonists were only allowed to trade within the British Empire |