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British government was under pressure to reduce taxes at home. That means that the American Colonists should pay a fair share of the war debt. 1756-1763
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this aimed at reducing the costs of protecting colonists from the wars that the colonists provoked with Native Americans.
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The Sugar Act reduced the rate of tax on molasses from six pence to three pence per gallon.
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The colonies suffered a constant shortage of currency with which to conduct trade. There were no gold or silver mines and currency could only be obtained through trade as regulated by Great Britain.
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an act to amend and render more effectual, in his Majesty's dominions in America, an act passed in this present session of parliament, intituled, An act for punishing mutiny and desertion, and for the better payment of the army and their quarters.
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introduced a new tax on the colonists by imposing duties on stamps needed for important documents.
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parliment passed, in 1774 it was changed to require colonists to shelter troops in their homes
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an act for the better securing the dependency of his Majesty's dominions in America upon the crown and parliament of Great Britain.
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an act for granting certain duties in the British colonies and plantations in America; for allowing a drawback of the duties of customs upon the exportation from this kingdom, of coffee and cocoa nuts of the produce of the said colonies or plantations; for discontinuing the drawbacks payable on china earthen ware exported to America; and for more effectually preventing the clandestine running of goods in the said colonies and plantations.
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a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry.
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The act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies, and in fact imposed no new taxes. It was designed to prop up the East India Company which was floundering financially and burdened with eighteen million pounds of unsold tea
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an act to discontinue shipping or lading goods, wares, and merchandise at the town and within the harbor of Boston.
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am act of justice in the cases of persons questioned for any acts done by themin an exicution of the law.
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an act for better regulating the province of the Massachuseetes Bay.
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ana act for making effectual Provision for the Government of the Province of Quebec, in North America.
