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Navigation Acts
Cause: The rise of the dutch carrying trade
Description: The navigation acts stopped the colonies from trading with anyone else but England.
Response: The colonists started to smuggle more often. -
Sugar Act
Cause: The smuggling from colonists and to increase profit on molasses.
Description: The act lowered taxes on molasses and made stricter laws against smuggling. -
Stamp Act
Cause: They had to pay for the French-Indian war.
Description: Colonists were taxed on every paper good.
Effect: The colonists started to boycott British goods. -
Quartering Act
Cause: Parliament was asked to do something about the British soldiers in the colonies who had no quarters to stay in.
Description: It forced the colonists to allow British soldiers to stay in their house whenever they want.
Response:Colonies refused to comply with the law. -
Declaratory Act
Cause: The stamp act was unfair and it upset the colonists
Description: Act was passed to repeal the stamp act
Response: Colonists continued to protest -
Townshend Act
Cause: British taxed daily goods as a way of income.
Description: Goods were taxed such as lead, paint, glass, imported goods, and tea
Response: Helped lead to the Boston Tea Party -
Tea Act
Cause: A way for the British to help increase their companies income
Description: The tea act lowered taxes on tea and only allowed colonists to buy a certain tea company
Response: Boston Tea Party -
Coercive Act
Cause: Boston Tea Party
Description: British closed the Mass. port, reduced the gov power, and more soldiers were brought to the colonies
Response: Colonists were mad but they could not protest -
Quebec Act
Cause: British wanted to expand their land up North
Description: The act passed a permanent administration in Canada
Response: The colonists thought the British were making more colonies