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The Plantation (or Sugar) Act
Cut the duty on foreign molasses from 6 to 3 pence per gallon, retained a high duty on foreign refined sugar, and prohibited the importation of all foreign rum.
They reacted with protest
The british government liked what they were doing but in 1765 they repealed the act because of over whelming anger -
The Currency Act
regulated currency, abolishing the colonies' paper currency in favor of a system based on the pound sterling.
The colonists protested
The British simply abolished them -
The Stamp Act
like those passed in 1764, was enacted to raise money for Britain. It taxed newspapers, almanacs, pamphlets, broadsides, legal documents, dice, and playing cards.
The American colonists were angered by the Stamp Act and quickly acted to oppose it.
Parliament voted to repeal the Stamp Act in March 1766. However, the same day, Parliament passed the Declaratory Acts, asserting that the British government had free and total legislative power over the colonies. -
The Townshend Acts
Initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea.
Riotous protest of the Townshend Acts in the colonies often invoked the phrase no taxation without representation.
Sending naval and military officials to Boston to enforce the Acts. -
The Tea Act
granted the company the right to ship its tea directly to the colonies without first landing it in England, and to commission agents who would have the sole right to sell tea in the colonies.
The American colonists were angered by the Stamp Act and quickly acted to oppose it.
repealed the colonial charter of Massachusetts and closed the port of Boston until the colonists reimbursed the cost of the destroyed tea