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The British were in debt because they spent all their money in the war. They started taxing the colonists more harshly because they needed money. -
The British won the French and Indian War and were in debt. The began to tax the colonists more harshly because they needed money. -
This was the first tax on the colonies. Its purpose was to raise revenue through the colonial customs service. Foreign goods were taxed such as sugar, certain wines, coffee, and regulated the export of lumber and iron. -
The act required the colonists to pay a tax represented by a stamp on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards. -
The act required the colonists to pay a tax represented by a stamp on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards. -
Because the colonists were boycotting and protesting against the Stamp Act, the British finally decided to repeal it. -
Imposed duties on British china, glass, lead, paint, paper and tea imported to the colonies. -
]A riot on the street that included throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks between the British soldiers and the colonists. The British killed 5 colonists. -
The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive. -
This was a political protest where the American colonists were mad at the British for imposing “taxation without representation”. The American colonists dumped chests of tea into the harbor. -
Were a punishment for the Boston Tea Party. These acts closed the port of Boston, stripped Massachusetts of its charter, allowed local authorities to lodge British troops anywhere, and British officers could now be tried in Britain instead of Boston -
The Quebec Act repealed loyalty oath and established religious freedom. -
First battle of the Revolutionary War. The British won.