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.. -. .---- --'-~ Stamp Act-1765: An internal tax requiring colonists to purchase stamps for printed materials such as wills, deeds, mortgages, newspapers, even wedding licenses and death certificates. '

N aviga tion Acts: Colonists were req uired to transport goods only in British vessels; certain goods could only go to England (sugar. tobacco, indigo, furs); imported goods must be purchased from England or pay duties in British port if purchased from foreign nation.

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Su'gar Act·1764:Reduced taxes on foreign sugar and molasses but provided for more strict enforcementof Navigation Acts.

Townshend Acts-l 76i: Import tariffs were placed on colonies for goods such as tea, paper glass, coloring for paints.

.Writs of Assistance: General search warrant

Tea Act·1773: Repea!ed Townshend Acts; however, a small duty was kept on tea; gave East India Company a monopoly on tea im•. ports to American Colonies.

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Proclamation of 1763: Prohibited allsettlement or fur trapping west of Appalachian . Mountains until further-notice. "T'his measure was to pacify Indians' and halt wars; also to protect trappers given permission to go into area. .

Quarteri:ngAct-1765: Colonists were. ~equired to provide food and shelter for British troops assigned to their area. Troops were assigned to eastern settlements to prevent colonists from staging an uprising; British officially stated they were assigned there to orotectthe frontier from Indian uprisings . . ~.-_.,...

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.English Colonial Acts Place a T In the space provided If the statement is t~ue,.an F if the ~tatement is false. . UsIng the Information (rom the chart on'page 2, decide If the followmg statements are true or false. 1. The TowrishendActs

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of 176Tplaced duties on tea, coloring for paints, paper, and

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Acts of 1765 was to divide the land in the west

equally among the New England Colonies. 3. ColonIsts were required to feed, clothe and shelter British troops in the eastern part of Massachusetts and New York. ' 4. The Townshend Acts of 1767 were repealed by the Tea Act of 1773 except for duty of tea. __ __.,_. " 5. Marriage licenses, death certificates and all other official papers in the colonies . ... required a special government stamp under the Stamp Act of 1765. 6. The Sugar Act was passed to tax sugar and molasses at lower rates, but also to strengthen the, enforcement ot all the other Navigation Acts. 7. Any goods purchased outside of England or its possessions were to be free of any . Import duty.

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8. The Quartering Act of 1765 was, in reality, a very restrictive and unpleasant act because it kept a very strict and confining watch on all activities of colonists even within their own homes .

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9. The main purpose of the Proclamation Act of 1763 was to keep the Indians from raiejing English Colonists on the western frontier. .

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.' 1. The Proclamation Act ·o'f 1763 was intended to a) free the Indians from Colonial bondage; b) make sure the Indians would no longer attack colonial outposts; c) furnish the Indians With weapons and whiskey; d) give the colonists a trapping area free . from Indian attack.

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2. General search warrants for colonial homes and businesses were referred to as a) nuisances; b) warrants for search and seizure; c) Writs of Assistance; d) King George's Madness; 4) none .of the above. 3; Colonists were spied upon to prevent any possible rebeltlous outbreak by the a) Quartering Act; b) Townshend Acts; c) Proclamation Acts; d) Navi,gation Acts; e) all of these;' f) none of these. .. 4. The Tea Act of 1773 placed a very heavy duty on a) sugar; b) paper; c) tea; d) coloring for paint; e) none of the above; f) all of the above.

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5. Taxes on foreign a) suga~ arid molasses; b) tar and resin; c)sugar and tea; , d) molasses and lumber;e) none of the above, were reduced but stricter enforcement of Navigation Acts were provided in the Sugar Act of 1764.

6. Under the a) Sugar Act of 1764; b) Proclamation of 1763; c) Navigation Acts; d) Quartering Act of 1765; e) a/l of the above, colonists were ordered to ship ,....._.._._,. goods in or out of colonies only on British ships.

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