StepsTowardRevolution

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 * 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,
 * Stamp Act || 1765 || Taxed certain types of documents ||
 * Declaratory Act || 1766 || Stated that Great Britian had th right to tax the colonies ||
 * Townshend Acts || 1767 || Taxed glass, lead, paint, paper and tea ||
 * Tea Act || 1773 || Gave East India Tea Company the sole control of tea trade ||
 * "Intolerable" Act || 1774 || Closed port of Boston ||

Edenton Tea Party While the British closed down the port of Boston, the other colonies decided to boycott until matters improved. North Carolina helped by sending a ship to Massachusetts full of corn, wheat, and salted pork to the cirizans of Boston. In October 1774, 51 woman from near the Albemarle sound met at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth King. Penelope Barker was the leader and ordered that the woman would not drink tea that day. media type="custom" key="11254602"