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| passed on April 5 1764, was a revenue-raising Act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain. It revised the earlier Sugar and Molasses Act, which had imposed a tax of sixpence per gallon on molasses in order to make English products cheaper than those from the French West Indies. |
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| was enacted in order to defray the cost of maintaining the military presence protecting the colonies. |
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| was a meeting in New York City in October 1765 of delegates from the American Colonies that discussed and acted upon the recently passed Stamp Act. |
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| was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain in 1766, during America's colonial period; one of a series of resolutions passed attempting to regulate the behavior of the colonies. |
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| was an attack on colonist civilians by British troops on March 5, 1770 and its legal aftermath, which helped spark the American Revolutionary War. |
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| These laws placed a tax on common products imported into the American Colonies, such as lead, paper, paint, glass, and tea. |
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| was a protest by the American colonists against Great Britain in which they destroyed many crates of tea bricks on ships in Boston Harbor. The incident, which took place on Thursday, December 16, 1773, has been seen as helping to spark the American Revolution. |
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Principal components of the act:
* Expansion of territory to take over the Canadian portions of the Indian Reserve (1763) that had separated Quebec from Rupert's Land including much of what is now southern Ontario
* Expansion of territory to take over land that is now in the United States (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota).
* Replaced the oath of allegiance so that it no longer made reference to the Protestant faith.
* Guaranteed free practice of the Catholic faith.
* Upheld the continued use of Civil law (legal system) initially used by the French |
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