Revenue Acts timeline.

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 this act was created for three reasons protect the British trade, prevent smuggling, and the French and Indian war took a toll on British money matters. The government liked it because it would make them money and prevent people from buying goods from other countries.

On September 1, 1764 The currency act was passed to help control the colonial currency system. Preventing the colonies from printing there own money and usage of money. Overall this act reduced most national debt. Many colonist did not like this act because they could not print their own money. The government liked this act because had control over all currency in most of the colonies and were making a profit in the process.

On March 22,1765 this act would be described as tax imposed by the British on the colonies. The tax was created for colonists, requiring them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. They knew that they wanted this act gone. To fight for their rights they did many things debated, write documents, and harassing tax collectors. For the governments reaction, Benjamin Franklin appealed the Stamp Act in front of the British House of Commons.

This act was designed to collect money from the colonists in America by applying customs duties on imports of glass, lead, certain paints, paper, and tea. They wouldn't buy tea unless it was smuggled, and because they felt that this act would threaten the by standing right of Colonial legislation. On the other hand the government continued to tax items of the colonists without their consent.

The final act of policies and taxes put in place by Britain on her American colonies. The Tea Act was designed to bring back up expand the East India Company which was going down hill financially The colonists were fed up with all of the taxation and refused to unload the tea cargoes on the ships. On December 16, 1773, 340 chests of tea were dumped into Boston Harbor by the Sons of Liberty group. The Tea Act actually gave the government large amounts of debt.