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British Tax Acts

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Sugar Acts of 1764
taxed sweetners, particularly molasses
Quartering Act
required colonists to give British soldiers room and board.
Stamp Act (1765)
Authorized by Prime Minister George Grenville to tax DIRECTLY all paper. Eventually repealed when boycotts in the colonies hurt England.
Declaratory Act
maintained crown's right to impose future taxes on the colonies. Instituted right after the Stamp Act was repealed.
Townshend Acts (1767)
Series of acts which placed duties on imports (an external tax) Reestablished the Writs of Assistance. Eventually repealed after circulation of the Massachusetts circular letter.
Writs of Assistance
customs officials were authorized to search homes, businesses, and warehouses for smuggled goods without a warrant from a judge.
Tea Act
Forced colonists to buy East India Company Tea at bargain prices to bail out the company.
Coercive Acts
All of these names refer to the same acts, passed in 1774 in response to the boston tea party, and which included the boston port act, which shut down boston harbor; the massachusetts government act, which disbanded the boston assembly (but it soon reinstated itself); the quartering act, which required the colony to provide provisions for british soldiers; and the administration of justice act, which removed the power of colonial courts to arrest royal officers. Unified colonists.
Intolerable Acts
Intolerable Acts, passed in 1774, were the combination of the four Coercive Acts, meant to punish the colonists after the 1773, Boston Tea Party and the unrelated Quebec Act. The Intolerable Acts were seen by American colonists as a blueprint for a British plan to deny the Americans representative government. They were the impetus for the convening of the First Continental Congress.
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