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Taxes! Taxes! Taxes

Taxes

Sugar Act – began to enforce smuggling laws

Quartering Act – House and feed soldiers

Stamp Act – required on all legal documents, newspapers, anything printed Remember it as a Paper Act

Stamp Act Congress

Boycott

Parliament repeals Stamp Act but says it has the right to tax colonists

Main issue is taxation without representation

Townshend Revenue Act

Taxes on tea, lead, paper and paint to help pay for colonial governments

Repealed after a few years

Gaspee Incident

Sons of Liberty

Emerged to fight Stamp Act Try to force Stamp Distributors (tax collectors) to

resign

Printers Leaders in Sons, also affected most by Stamp Act

Started in Boston, became a presence in every colony

Intolerable Acts

Port Bill – closed Boston Harbor

Government Act – positions now appointed instead of elected. Gave more power to royal governor

New Quartering Act

Administration of Justice Act Allowed British officials to be tried in Britain for

crimes committed in colonies Easier trial

Quebec Act 1774

Quebec Act

Extended territory of Quebec Took away western lands from colonies

Religious tolerance to Catholics Most colonists were some sort of Protestant

Tea Act 1773

British East India Company Monopoly on British tea imports Many members of Parliamnet held shares in

company Permitted company to sell tea directly to colonist (no

colonial middle men – tea was cheaper) Expected that colonists would eagerly accept the

cheaper tea