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French and Indian War.
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Sugar Act
The sugar act was passed on April 5, 1764, putting a 3 cent-tax on foreign sugar along with increasing taxes on coffee, indigo, and certain kinds of wine -
Currency Act
it prevented the colonies from printing their own money and controlled the printing and usage of the money. Overall this act reduced most national debt. -
Stamp Act
created for all American colonists, requiring them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. -
Townshed Act
designed to collect money from the colonists in America by applying customs duties on imports of glass, lead, certain paints, paper, and tea. The American Revolution and Boston Tea Party followed shortly after. -
Tea Act
designed to bring back up (expand) the East India Company which was going downhill financially and suffered from eighteen million pounds of unsold tea.