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Sugar Act
This act placed a tax on sugar and molasses, which made them more expensive.The colonists were opposed to the idea of paying taxes and protested against them. The colonists organized a boycott and a committee against the British parliament and the Sugar Act, the sugar act was later repealed because of all of the anger and complaints. The British government did not like this, and later created the Stamp Act.
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Stamp Act
This act taxed all printed matter, colonists had to buy a stamp for all printed documents. The colonists were very angry about this and they refused to use stamps and stamped paper. The British government responded to these protest by repealing the acts and also revoking the taxed imposed by these acts.
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Quartering Act
This act required colonial assemblies to provide housing, food and drink to British troops stationed in their towns. This would improve living conditions. The colonists fought against this new law because it seemed to them that it violated the Bill of Rights. The British did not believe that it violated any terms and wanted to continue housing the troops, later no colonies obeyed, and this act was expired.
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Townshend Acts
This act levied import duties on glass, paint, paper, and tea, taking away some of the freedom of the colonists. The colonists organized boycotts, and some even stole some of the goods and stopped paying taxes. The British reacted to this by turning violent sometimes, since some protests got a bit out of hand, some soldiers panicked and began to kill, hurt.
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Tea Act
This act gave the East India Company the right to sell tea in colonies. This act cut out colonial merchants, in which the colonists reacted to in anger and violence, and arguments, protest against this act and the British Parliment. The British Parliment rejected their arguments and continued with the act, but then later colonists assembled a huge part of history in which they dumped chests of tea into the Boston Harbor; The Boston Tea Party.
Picture: History.com Staff, "Tea Act" www.history.com
