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Navigation Acts
Impact:
Restricted colonists trading and economic responses.
Colonial Response:
1. Got mad because it restricted their opportunities to achieving more to better their colony.
2. More smuggling -
Sugar Act
Impact-
1. Increased enforcement of smuggling laws.
2. Increased the cost of doing business & industry.
Colonial Response-
1. The protests became heavier.
2. Organized a boycott of luxury goods. -
Quartering Act
Impact-
1. Provide British soldiers food, water, shelter, and transportation.
Colonial Response-
1. Protest, as they were being taxed to pay for the provisions for the army. -
Declaratory Act
Impact-
1. Repealed the Stamp Act.
Colonial Response
1. Protest. -
Townshend Act
Impact-
1. Lead to the Boston Tea Party.
Colonial Response
1. Colonists got mad about these taxes. -
Tea Act
Impact-
1. Passed in 1773.
2. Intended to bail out British companies.
Colonial Response-
1. All colonies united
2. Greatly opposed the Tea Act.
3. Lead to the Boston Tea Party. -
Stamp Act
Impact-
1. Tax collectors were terred & feathered.
Colonial Response-
1. Protests against the acts.
2. Started violent acts. -
Coercive Acts
Impact-
1. Closed Boston Port.
2. Massachusetts Government Act. (Reduced the power)
3. Admin of Justice Act. (Officials accused of a crime)
Colonial Response-
1. Colonists viewed this act as the "Intolerable Act".
2. Punished people of Boston to dissidents under control. -
Quebec Act
Impact-
1. Gave French- Canadians complete religious freedom and restored French from the Civil War.
Colonial Response
American Revolution against the British.