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APUSH- Unit 3, Chapter 5
NOTES- British Acts and Actions
Proclamation of 1763- issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French
territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which forbade all
settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.
Sugar Act- (1764) also known as the American Revenue Act, was a revenue-raising act passed by the British
Parliament of Great Britain in April of 1764. The earlier Molasses Act of 1733, which had imposed a tax of six pence
per gallon of molasses, had never been effectively collected due to colonial resistance and evasion.
Currency Act- any of several Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain that regulated paper money issued by the
colonies of British America. The Acts sought to protect British merchants and creditors from being paid in
depreciated colonial currency.
Stamp Act- (1765) an act of the British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by
imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. Colonial opposition led to the act's
repeal in 1766 and helped encourage the revolutionary movement against the British Crown.
Declaratory Act- (1766) a declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. It
stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain. Parliament had
directly taxed the colonies for revenue in the Sugar Act (1764) and the Stamp Act (1765).
Townshend Duties- (1767) A series of measures introduced into the English Parliament by Chancellor of the
Exchequer Charles Townshend in 1767, the Townshend Acts imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea
imported into the colonies.
Tea Act- (1773) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The principal objective was to reduce the massive
amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the
struggling company survive.
Quartering Act- (1765) a name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the local governments of
the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing. It also required
colonists to provide food for any British soldiers in the area.
Coercive (“Intolerable”) Acts (1774)- a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the
Boston Tea Party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea
shipment into Boston Harbor by closing down the Harbor and placing the British Army in control of the city; also
shut down the Boston assembly.
Lexington and Concord- The first (unofficial) battle of the Revolutionary War, fought in Massachusetts on April 19,
1775. British troops had moved from Boston toward Lexington and Concord to seize the colonists' military supplies
and arrest revolutionaries.