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What is Stamp Act
This Act required stamps to be placed on all legal documents and publications
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What is "Taxation without representation is tyranny!"
James Otis expressed the colonists' attitude toward the Stamp Act with this famous saying
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What is Quebec Act
This law was one of five acts passed in 1774 that made Catholicism the official religion of Quebec
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Who are English soldiers
During the Boston Massacre, they fired into a crowd and killed or wounded several colonists.
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What is Townshend Act
This Act required the payment of a tax on goods imported into the colonies.
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What are the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party
These two events resulted from colonial anger of the Townshend Acts, followed by Parliament passing the Intolerable Acts
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What is Navigations Laws
This law required that all colonial goods be carried on English or colonial ships
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What is Townshend Acts
This act imposed new tariffs, which were all repealed except the one on tea
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What is Intolerable Acts
This Act ordered the port of Boston closed until the tea that was destroyed was paid for.
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What is taxation without representation
The tariff on tea enraged the colonists because they objected to this.
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What is Declaration Act
This law repealed the Stamp Act, but declared Parliament had the right to tax the colonies
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What is Stamp Act
This act provoked James Otis to send protests to the king and Parliament
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What is Navigation Laws
This law prohibited the colonies from manufacturing goods already made in England
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What is Declaration of Rights and Grievances
The First Continental Congress issued this, but the king refused to accept it.
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What is Stamp Act
This law so enraged the colonists that there were widespread protests and riots
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What is Navigation Laws
This law required ships carrying colonial goods to pass through English ports
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