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Sugar Act
The Sugar Act of 1764 was a law enacted by Britain to increase British revenues by preventing the smuggling of molasses into the American colonies and enforcing the collection of higher taxes and duties. American colonists responded to the Sugar Act and the Currency Act with protest. However, the goal was not to raise revenue but to impose a high enough duty on foreign trade to channel trade between Britain and her colonies.Grenville's proposed duties would raise revenue and be strictly enforce -
Currency Act
On September 1,1764 the currency act was passed to help control the colonial currency system. During this act parliamentary favored the hard currency system and enforced it. Preventing the colonies from printing their own money and controlling the printing and usage of the money. American colonists responded to the Sugar Act and the Currency Act with protest. -
stamp act
British Parliament passed the “Stamp Act” to help pay for British troops stationed in the colonies during the Seven Years' War. The act required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards. The American colonists were angered by the Stamp Act and quickly acted to oppose it. After months of protest, and an appeal by Benjamin Franklin before the British House of Commons, Parliament voted to repeal the Stamp Act -
Townshend act
The Townshend Acts were a series of measures, passed by the British Parliament in 1767, that taxed goods imported to the American colonies. But American colonists, who had no representation in Parliament, saw the Acts as an abuse of power
the British government moves to mollify outraged colonists by repealing most of the clauses of the hated Townshend Act. -
Tea act
British Parliament passed the Tea Act. The act granted the company the right to ship its tea directly to the colonies without first landing it in England. The colonist resistance culminated in the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773, in which colonists boarded East India Company ships and dumped their loads of tea overboard The British response to the Boston Tea Party was to impose even more stringent policies on the Massachusetts colony