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| Navigation Acts | These acts were trade rules that governed commerce between Britain and its colonies |
| Currency Act | This act of 1751 prohibited the issue of new bills by New England colonies |
| Sugar Act | This act Increased the duty (taxes) of molasses |
| Stamp Act | This act intended to raise money by requiring the purchase of stamps to be placed on public documents, there were 55 documents subject to the duty |
| Quartering Act | This act required colonists to provide housing, food and drink to British troops stationed in their towns |
| Declaratory Act | This act stated that the colonies are dependent on Britain and that Parliament had the authority to pass laws |
| Townshend Acts | This act imposed duties on 72 items including paint, tea, glass and paper. Protests against this act led to the Boston Massacre |
| Tea Act | This act granted the East India Company exclusive license to import and distribute tea to the American colonies |
| Coercive or Intolerable Acts | As retaliation for the Boston Tea Party, Britain imposed these acts |
| Sons of Liberty | A secret, underground organization that was founded in Boston by Samuel Adams and John Hancock in July 1765 |
| Purpose of the Sons of Liberty | to force all of the British stamp agents to resign and to stop many American merchants from ordering British trade goods |
| Boston Tea Party | happened on Dec. 16, 1773. A protest by colonists in Boston against the Tea Tax |
| Boston Massacre | happened on March 5, 1770. British soldiers fired into the crowd and killed American colonists. |
