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Sugar tax
They started taxing three cents for every pound of sugar. -
The Currency Act
They passed an act to control the currency. -
The Stamp Act
It was passed to help pay for things they needed and couldn't pay for, also to help bounce back from France. -
The Townshend Act
Was made so that they would stop spending money on importing goods, they would just make their own. -
The Tea Act
the act’s main purpose was not to raise revenue from the colonies but to bail out the floundering East India Company, a key actor in the British economy.