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- Issued October 7th, 1763 by King George III.

- This document prohibited English Colonists to 

establish settlements West of the Appalachian 

Mountains .

- Angered colonists who thought they had won 

the right to settle the Ohio River Valley

- The Quartering Acts ordered local governments 

of the American Colonies to provide provisions for 

British soldiers. 

- There were 10,000 British soldiers in the 

colonies to house.

- This Act was a cost-saving measure for the 

British.

- Issued In 1765.

- This law required all legal and commercial 

documents to carry an official stamp showing 

that a tax had been paid.

- All diplomas, contracts, and wills had to carry 

a stamp.

- Published materials, such as newspapers, had 

to be written on special stamped paper.

- First this act suspended New York's assembly 

unil New Yorkers agreed to provide housing for 

the troops.

- The act placed duties on various goods 

brought into the colonies, like paper, glass, and 

tea.

- The money collected would be used to pay 

the salaries of British governors and other 

officials in the colonies. 

- Incident occurred March 5th 1770.

- The fight broke out when a group of   youths 

and dockworkers started insulting each other 

in front of the Custom House.

- The said that Attucks and the four others had 

given their lives for freedom.

- The Tea Act gave the British East India 

Company a lot of control over America's tea 

trade.

- Since Tea was extremely popular in the 

Americas, the Tea Act angered many 

Americans for the taxing.

- Tea could only arrive in the trading 

company's ships were it was sold by 

merchants.

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