Legislation
date
what it did
proclamation of 1763
1763
set boundaries for westen settlement
sugar act
1764
lowered tax on sugar, molasses, amd other
products, but tightened customs enforcement
Stamp act
1765
taxed certain types of documents
declaratory act
1766
stated that great britain had the 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" acts
1774
closed port of Boston

The Edenton Tea Party was a protest toward tea taxes. In October 1774 51 women from around the albemarle sound met at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth King on the village green in Edenton. Under the leadership of Penelope Barker, they promised they would drink no more British tea or use other imported materials. Mrs. King served herbal tea that day, and the event was reported all the way back to England. Since that time, Nothe Carolinians have remembered it as thier own Edenton The party.


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