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Molasses Act
-The Molasses Act is a British law that imposed a tax on molasses, sugar, and rum imported from non-British foreign colonies into the North American colonies.
-The colonists protested the act saying that the British West Indies alone could not produce enough molasses to meet the colonies' needs.
-It was one of the least effective acts because Americans kept smuggling it in and it was hard to enforce it. -
Sugar Act
-The Act set a tax on sugar and molasses imported into the colonies which impacted the manufacture of rum in New England.
-Parliament, desiring revenue from its North American colonies, passed the first law specifically aimed at raising colonial money for the Crown. The sugar act increased duties on non-British goods shipped to the colonies.
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Stamp Act
-The act required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards.
-The colonies hated Parliament's first direct tax on the American colonies.
-Most of the British thought it was fine since they also paid it, but some merchants wanted it repealed for economic reasons. -
Quartering Act
-Required the American colonies to provide quarters (lodging) to British forces stationed in their towns or villages.
- the American colonists were enraged that they had to house the armies that did't even want there
-The army was like OK and set up camp in Boston anywhere they liked -
Townshend Revenue Acts
-Duties aimed not merely at regulating trade but at putting money into the British treasury.
--Many colonists resented what they perceived as an effort to tax them without representation and thus to deprive them of their liberty.
- they considered all the duties bad for trade and, thus, expensive for the British empire.