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British Taxation Timeline
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Sugar Acts
Sugar act is also known as the "revenue act". It was tax that was passed by the British to make up for the French and Indian War in America. It taxed sugar in the British colonies in America and the West Indies. This act restricted smuggling. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act imposed a direct tax on colonists. This act required legal documents and printed materials to have a stamp provided by officials who would collect the tax in exchange for the stamp. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act was passed by the British Parliament. The act required colonial governments to provide and pay for feeding and sheltering any stationed troops in their colony. -
Declaratory Acts
The Declaratory Act was the declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. The parliament was directly taxed for the colonies for their revenue during the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act. -
Townshend Acts
Shortly after the repeal of the Stamp Acts, the Townshend Acts were passed by the English Parliament. This taxed important items like tea, paper, lead, paint, and glass. The Boston merchants boycott English goods to protest. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight between several British Soldiers and a mob of protesting colonists. Here, the “shot heard ‘round the world” took place after a British Soldier fired into the crowd of colonists. A fight broke out which ended with several colonist casualties. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a protest against the series of taxes imposed by the British. The American Colonists, frustrated with the British for introducing “taxation without representation”, dumped over 300 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor to protest. -
Intolerable Act
The Intolerable Act were punishment laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after eh Boston Tea Party. The laws were meant to punish the colonist from Massachusetts for the defiance during the Tea Party to protest. -
Continental Congress
The Continental Congress was the government for all 13 colonies. The First Continental Congress, which was composed of delegates from the colonies, met to discuss the Coercive Acts, a series of acts imposed by the British government on the colonies in response to their resistance to new taxes. -
Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord, also known as the battles that started the Revolutionary War, started in 1775. Hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord in order to attack. A confrontation on the Lexington town green started off the fighting, and soon the British were hastily retreating under intense fire. Many more battles followed