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a series of laws that the English Parlament put on the colonists in the 1600s. it made colonist sell all raw materials to England,even though they could get better prices elsewhere in Europe. -
Parliament placed on all sugar products. Sugar, molasses, and rum -
The British began to show interest in the Ohio River Valley, but the French viewed the territory as theirs.
The Ohio river valley is important because it was rich in resources, and the French enjoyed trading with the Native Americans! -
1764 they passed the sugar act on the Colonists
The new tax lowered the tax on molasses imported to the colonies
Encourage people to buy it and to stop smuggling. -
A small tax on all printed materials
Newspapers
Wills
Playing cards
Documents -
a British law passed to assert Parliament's authority over the American colonies -
it is when he took over Boston -
Coercive Acts, 1774, is also known as the ‘Intolerable Acts’ . Intolerable means painful and unbearable. -
Quartering Act - Permitted the requisition of unoccupied buildings at first, to house British troops. -
The one Coercive Acts that was applied to all of the Colonies was the Administration of Justice Act -
Quebec Act - June 1774: A government for Canada was created, and extended its territory all the way south to the Ohio River. The Colonists were trapped. -
a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 American colonies in Philadelphia from September 5 to October 26, 1774, to protest Britain's Coercive Acts