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Quartering Act
The act required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks. If that didn't work then they had to put them in local inns, livery stables, ale houses, and the houses of seller of wines. The colonists resented and opposed the Quartering Act. Not because they had to house soldiers but because they were being taxed to pay for provisions and barracks for the army. The government reacted by passing the restraining act. -
Stamp Act
It was an act passed by British Parliament that exacted revenue from the colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. The colonies would react by boycotting all the way to riots and attacks on tax collectors. The response from the British government of the protests was to repeal the Townshend Act. -
Townshend Act
The Townshend Act was a series of measures, it taxed goods imported to the colonies. It also took away some freedoms from the colonists too. The same thing as the stamp act, the colonies would range from boycotts all the way to rioting tax collector. The government would repeal the Townshend Act and they revoked all the taxes imposed by these acts besides tea. -
Tea Act
It was made to reduce the massive amount of tea held by British East India Company to help the financially struggle company. The colonists boarded the British ships carrying the Tea and dumped their loads of tea overboard. This led the British government to impose the Coercive Act. -
Coercive Act
a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774, relating to Britain's colonies in North America. Passed in response to the Boston Tea Party. the colonies saw it as a violation of their constitutional rights, their natural rights, and their colonial charters. British hoped that the Coercive Acts would isolate radicals in Massachusetts and cause American colonists to concede the authority of Parliament over their elected assemblies.
