Steps+Toward+Revolution


 * Legislation || Date || What It Did ||
 * Proclamation of 1763 || 1763 || set boundaries for western settlement ||
 * Sugar Act || 1764 || Lowered tax on sugar, molasses, and other ||
 * ||  || products, but tightened customs enforcement ||
 * Stamp Act || 1765 || Taxed certain types of documents ||
 * Declaratory || 1766 || Stated that Great Britain had the right to tax ||
 * ||  || the colonies ||
 * Townshed Acts || 1767 || Taxed glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea ||
 * Tea Act || 1773 || Gave East India Tea Company the sole control ||
 * ||  || of tea trade ||
 * "Intolerable" Acts || 1774 || Closed port of Boston ||