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=== British Laws & Regulations === | === British Laws & Regulations === | ||
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|+ Chronology of Colonial Acts | |||
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! Act !! Year | |||
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| Sugar Act|| 1763 | |||
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| Quebec Act|| 1764 | |||
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| Quartering Act|| 1765 | |||
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| Declaratory Act || 1766 | |||
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| Townsend Act|| 1767 | |||
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| Tea Act|| 1773 | |||
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| Coervice Acts|| Example | |||
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| Example || Example | |||
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| Example || Example | |||
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<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Coercive Acts|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Coercive Acts|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Intolerable Acts|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Intolerable Acts|}}</ul></li> | ||
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<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Olive Branch Petition|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Olive Branch Petition|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Quartering Act|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Quartering Act|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Stamp Act|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Stamp Act|1765; aimed to raise revenue (not mercantilist in nature), taxed any printed item, including contracts, titles, almanacs, playing carts, etc.; highest fees were on legal documents, so impacted the wealthy most; was efficient to collect; but outraged the colonists}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Sugar Act|}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Sugar Act|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Townsend Acts|}}</ul> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Townsend Acts|}}</ul> |