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Navigation Acts
Navigation Acts were trade rules between the colonies and the British. This act helped British’s interests in trading with the colonists and to control the colonist’s rapid growth in resources. -
Molasses Act
Forced taxes on imports of molasses. This act was important because it helped control the trade between the colonies. -
Molasses Act
Forced taxes on imports of molasses. This act was important because it helped control the trade between the colonies. -
Sugar Act
The sugar act reduced taxes on imports on molasses and helped prevent smuggling of goods. -
Stamp Act
The stamp act helped increase tax rates because in order to send documents, you would need a stamp. -
Quartering Act
Required colonists to provide food, water and shelter for British troops stationed in their town. Troops would stay in public buildings and not private property. -
Declaratory Act
This act gave the Parliament of Britain the ability to pass and bind laws to the American colonies. This act came soon after the repeal of the Stamp act. -
Townshend Acts
Was a series of laws and taxes. This act took freedom away from colonist. This act later imposed taxes on over 70 goods such as paint, tea, glass, paper and many more goods. Soon after led to protests and then the Boston Massacre. -
Tea Act
This act gave the East Indian Company the ability to important and distribute tea the the American Colonies. This led to a high supply in tea and the price went lower. Marketers and smugglers were very mad because they were selling it for less money, and this led to the the Boston Tea Party. -
Intolerable Acts
Introduced 5 new laws after the Boston Tea Party incident. Those 5 laws were Boston Port Act, Massachusetts government act, administration of justice act, quartering act and the Quebec act.
