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British Colonial Legislation

Year 1651-1733

In response to Protection of British income

Parliament passed Navigation Act

1764

Smuggling

Writs of assistance

1764

smuggling

Sugar act

1765-1766 1765

Britain needs to raise money to pay off war debt British troops in America need room and food The Stamp Act, the Stamp Act Congress and other forms of protest, the repeal of the Stamp Act The repeal of the Stamp Act, Colonists will not tolerate internal taxes The East India Trading Company was about to go bankrupt

Stamp act Quartering act

1766

Declaratory act

Which said Colonists may only use British ships and ports for trade and could only trade with Britain Customs officials may search homes and warehouses for potentially smuggled goods Lowers tax on molasses, stop smuggling, officials can seize goods, sets up vice-admiralty courts in Canada and England Tax on almost all printed materials in the colonies Colonists must house and feed British soldiers stationed in the colonies Parliament had the right to tax the British colonists(in all cases) Tax payed at port entry and added to the total cost, Tax on necessary item like paper, tea, glass, lead Gave the East India Trading company the right to trade tea to the colonies without having to pay taxes Closed the Boston Harbor until colonists paid for the ruined tea and forced the Bostonians to shelter British soldiers Set up a permanent government for Quebec and granted religious freedom to French Catholics, gave the area west of the Appalachians and north of the of the Ohio river to Quebec

1767

Townshend acts

1773

Tea Act of 1773

1774

Boston tea party and the Bostonians revolting

Coercive acts

1774

Revolting of the Bostonians and continuation of the Coercive acts

Quebec Act