Taxes on the Colonists

By Phoenix1125

  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act
    the smuggling of sugar and molasses in the colonies by reducing the previous tax rate and enforcing the collection of duties.

  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    Taxes on legal documents, newspapers, and pamphlets. They also require a stamp.

  • Virginian Resolution

    Virginian Resolution
    The Virginian Assembly refuses the Stamp Act.

  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act
    The colonies are required to pay for supplies for British Garrisons but the The New York assembly said it couldn’t be forced upon them.

  • Stamp Act Congress

    Stamp Act Congress
    Nine representatives from nine of the thirteen colonies announce that the Stamp Act is unconstitutional because it was made without their approval.

  • Declaratory Act

    Declaratory Act
    Finally removes the Stamp Act however the British say they can still tax the colonists.

  • Townshend Revenue Act

    Townshend Revenue Act
    axes on tea, glass, lead, paper, and paint. The colonial assemblies state that the british are doing “taxation without representation."

  • Tea Act

    Tea Act
    Put taxes on tea and colonies saw it as an indirect tax.

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    Colonists dressed up as Native Americans from the Mohawk tribe and dumped 9,000 pounds worth of tea.

  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts
    Continental Congress announces a boycott on British goods.