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Navigation Acts
Cause: Britain wanted the colonists to be dependent on the mother colony
Description: Restricted colonist trading by forcing them to only be able to trade through Britain
Response: The colonists felt their money was being wasted on shipping everything across the ocean just to trade and smuggled tea from the Dutch -
Sugar Act
Cause: To help pay for the French and Indian War.
Description: Increased the cost of doing business and enforcement of smuggling laws
Response: heavier protests and an organized boycott of British goods -
Tea Act
Cause: British lowered prices of tea to persuade the colonists to buy their tea
Description: The colonists still bought their tea from the dutch to rebel
Response: lead to the Boston Tea Party -
Stamp Act
Cause: To pay for soldiers to be in the colonies
Description: A tariff of 10 pounds was placed on all paper goods imported and exported in the colonies
Response: Tax collectors were tarred and feathered, their homes were burned, 1st Act were the colonists grew violent -
Quartering Act
Cause: little to no room for the British soldiers to stay in the Americas
Description: Townspeople were forced to provide a bed and food for soldiers who knocked on their door
Response: The townspeople wanted to repel and refuse to let them in -
Declaratory Act
Cause: To try and calm down the colonies and better secure dependency
Description: Repelled the stamp act, but replaced it with the ability to tax whatever Britain wanted, whenever it wanted
Response: Protesting -
Townshend Act
Cause:
Description:
Revenue Act = Tax on lead, paint, glass, and tea
Commissions of Costumes = taxed imported goods
Vice Admiralty = can search for smuggling without a warrant
NY restraining = stricter taxes
Response: Protesting and help lead to Boston Tea Party -
Quebec Act
Cause: to increase the size of the colonies
Description: Gave religious freedom to the French - Canadians
Response: Colonies believed it was an attempt to increase the size of the colonies, help lead to revolutionary war -
Coercive Acts
Cause: Boston Tea Party
Description: Boston ports closed, Massachusetts government shrunk, Expanded quartering act to allow soldiers in all types of homes, officials will be tried in Britain instead of America
Response: Nicknamed "The Intolerable Acts"