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British passed the Proclamation of 

1763,

which limited coloinal expansion. who 

thought that Britain should stay out 

of North American affairs all 

together.The next ten years was   a 

string of British impositions on the 

colonies, as if to test the limits of 

Parliament's power in North America.

British motivations for making 

the Quartering Act were mixed. 

Some   were concerned about 

protecting the colonies from 

attack . Also part of it , was 

a want to cut costs. If the 

colonies were to be protected, 

why should they not pay for the 

soldiers? In particular, the 

British ministry was faced with 

the prospect of bringing home 

the French and Indian War 

veterans and providing them 

with pay.

During the Stamp Act   of 1765 and 

early 1766, numbers of soldiers were 

in or near American cities. Some of 

them   were new units brought from 

England. Others were transferred from 

western posts.The reaction of the 

colonists it was negative: 

1.     Traditional fear of standing armies. 

2.     Cost. The cost of expenses for an 

army was no small matter for the 

colonial assemblies. 

Townshend Acts were   laws passed beginning in 1767 by the 

Parliament relating to the British colonies in North America. The acts 

are named after Charles Townshend,   who proposed the program. 

Historians vary slightly in which acts they include under the heading 

"Townshend Acts", but five laws are mentioned: the Revenue Act of 

1767, the Indemnity Act, the Commissioners of Customs Act, the Vice 

Admiralty Court Act, and the New York Restraining Act.

The purpose of the Townshend Acts was colonies to pay the salaries of 

governors and judges so that they would be independent of colonial 

rule, to create a better way of enforcing compliance with trade 

regulations, to punish the province of New York for failing to do what 

the 1765 Quartering Act says, and to establish the precedent that the 

British Parliament had the right to tax the colonies.

The Boston Massacre, was an incident on March 5, 1770,  

where British redcoats killed five men. British troops had 

been stationed in Boston since 1768   to protect   colonial 

officials attempting to enforce unpopular Parliamentary 

legislation.   A mob formed around a British sentry, who 

was subjected to verbal abuse. He was eventually 

supported by a small company of troops, who had the 

same experience. They they went into the crowd and 

killed three people and   wounding others. Two more 

people died later of wounds sustained in the incident.

The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773.The act was 

not intended to raise anything in the American colonies, and in 

fact had   no new taxes. it was made to East India Company 

which was burdened with eighteen million pounds of unsold tea. 

This tea was to be shipped directly to the colonies, and sold at a 

bargain price. The Townshend Duties were still in place ,America  

believed that this act was   to buy popular support for the taxes 

already in force. 

Colonists in Philadelphia and New York gave the tea ships back 

to Britain. In Charleston the tea was left on the docks. In Boston 

the Royal Governor was lazy and held the ships in port, where 

the colonists would not allow them to unload. Cargoes of tea 

filled the harbor.This situation led to the Boston Tea Party.

The Boston Tea Party was an action by colonists in 

Boston, against the British government and   East 

India Company that controlled all the tea imported 

into the colonies. On December 16, 1773, after 

they   refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea 

to Britain, a group of colonists destroyed the tea by 

throwing it into Boston Harbor. The incident 

remains an event of American history, and other 

political protests often refer to it.The Boston Tea 

Party was a key event in the growth of the 

American Revolution

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