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Stamp Act
The Stamp act was an act where the British taxed everything that was bought from the British markets. The Americans took it as the British trying to keep control over them, when the British was trying to earn back the money they lost in the seven years' war. So the Americans boycotted all British goods, the British economy started to suffer and rescind the act. -
The Quartering Act
This act basically was that the colonist needed to find and pay for lodging for British soldiers. And when the French and Indian war was over, the colonists saw no reason to pay for it anymore and stopped paying the taxation. This forced the British soldiers to go back to England. -
The Sugar Act
This was a revenue-raising act. Through this the British were actually able to collect the molasses taxation. This was the act that started raising red glass for the colonists, on what the true intents of the British Parliament were. -
The Declaratory Act
This was a taxation inputted after the repeal of the Stamp Act. It basically said that taxation in America would turn out to be the same as in England. This was another failure to tax the colonists because they did the same thing as they did with the stamp act, the boycotted the governments goods. Which in favor, made the British rescind yet another failed attempt at taxation. -
The Townshend Act
This was, yet again, another taxation, this time upon things like paper, glass, tea and lead. They even went further as to appoint people to make sure the colonists were paying their taxes. But, this just just made the colonist angry, again. Things like boycotting and attacking the people made to collect taxes were no uncommon.
