The Declaratory Act ........

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The Declaratory Act

forced captains of trading vessels to keep an accurate ship’s manifest to curtail smuggling.

declared the Stamp Act uprisings to be a violation of English law.

reasserted Parliament’s right to pass any and all colonial laws.

challenged the House of Burgesses’s right to exist.

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Explanation:

Declaratory Act, (1766), declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. It stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain. Parliament had directly taxed the colonies for revenue in the Sugar Act (1764) and the Stamp Act (1765)