HIST 1007 Lecture : Aja S History Notes
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Changing british policy: round one, proclamation act of 1763, sugar act 1764, currency act 1764, stamp act 1765, round two, tea act 1773: pass a law that makes all the colonies buy their team exclusively from the east. People get most upset about the quartering act: quartering act- british soldiers be housed in private homes. Paid to quarter soldiers but they could be spied on. It makes the other colonists nervous bc they may start quartering other parts effected, they want to fight against the tea. A group of patriots in boston dressed up as na, climbed on ships and destroyed 70,000 lbs of tea by dumping it into boston harbor. Tea was going to drop in price (everyone is angry bc their tea is cheaper- strange) well the colonists believed wrongly that if they consented paying taxes on tea, they were.
