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Sugar Act
The Sugar Act says that all the sugar would be taxed and everything that has sugar would also be taxed and it would also make syrup,sugar, and rum more expensive. -
Stamp Act
The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed. -
Quartering Act
The act stated that troops could only be quartered in barracks and if there wasn't enough space in barracks then they were to be quartered in public houses and inns. -
The Townshend
The act stated that troops could only be quartered in barracks and if there wasn't enough space in barracks then they were to be quartered in public houses and inns. -
The Tea Act
The Tea Act was passed because people were smuggling tea from The East India Company, Parliament thought they can help the company by putting tax on the tea and tea was a popular drink in Britain. -
The Boston Post Act
On this day in 1773, British Parliament passes the Boston Port Act, closing the port of Boston and demanding that the city's residents pay for the nearly $1 million worth of tea dumped into Boston Harbor during the Boston Tea Party. -
Ma Government Act and the Administration of Justice Act.
On May 20, 1774 the same day it passed the Massachusetts Government Act, which repealed the colony's charter the Administration of Justice Act was approved. Administration of Justice Act 1774. An act for the impartial administration of justice in the cases of persons questioned for any acts done by them in the execution of the law, or for the suppression of riots and tumults, in the province of the MA's Bay, in New England. -
Quebec Act
The British Parliament passed the Quebec Act on October 7, 1774, in an effort to satisfy the people of Quebec and to prevent them from joining the growing dissent and disaffection fomenting in the American colonies. Specifically, the Quebec Act restored French civil law.
