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Parliament passed the Stamp Act in 1765. This law required the purchase of tax stamps to buy paper.
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The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.
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BECAUSE THE KING MADE THEM PAY TAX SO THAT THE SOLDIERS WOULD HAVE SUPPLYS
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Quartering Act is a name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the 18th century. Parliament enacted them to order local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing.
COLONIST BELIEVE THE QUARTERING ACT VIOLATED THEIR RIGHTS OF PROPERTY
AND SUBSEQUENT RIGHT OF ASSEMBLY
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Declaratory Act, (1766), declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. It stated that the British Parliamentās taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain.
The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars on March 5, 1770. It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768 to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the Townshend Acts.
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The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies.
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