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Sugar Act
The Sugar Act set a tax on sugar and molasses on the colonies, which greatly affected the manufacturing of rum. -
Currency Act
The Currency Act was passed by Parliament to regulate paper money in the colonies. -
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The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was the first direct tax on every colonist, meaning everyone had to pay for it. The act placed a tax on all paper documents imported in the colonies. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act required colonists to house and serve food to nearby British soldiers. -
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Townsend Acts
The Townsend Acts were a series of acts from Parliament that placed taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
British soldiers fired on a crowd of protesters in Boston. 5 colonists were killed. Founding father John Adams defended the British soldiers, and 6 out of 8 were found not guilty. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act granted the British East India Company to have a monopoly on tea in the colonies. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a protest led by Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty against the Tea Act. At night, they raided a British ship and threw 342 chests of tea, about $1,700,000 worth of tea today.