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End of the French and Indian War
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Sugar Act
Extended Molasses Act, by changing the tax on imports from the Carribean. Gave British courts the ability to try colonial smugglers. This angered the colonists because smugglers could be tried in British courts, contrary to being tried in the leniant Colonial courts. -
Stamp Act
All Printed material must carry a stamp, which were not free. Mostly to gain revenue for Britain, it mainly affected people who used a lot of paper, like newspaper printers and lawyers. -
Declatory Act
Basically told the colonists that Britain can impose taxes on them. Colonists did not like this because it, legally stated, that they could be taxed, for anyting. -
Townshend Acts
Creaqted a new board of customs, to stop smuggling. Artisans loved boycotts because they made more money, but merchants from Philidelphia and New York because they made their living on importing the goods that were being boycotted. -
Tea Act
Tax exemptions and rebates for tea coming in from the British East India Company, which allowed them to dump cheap tea on the colonies. This helped lower the cost of tea for the colonists. Tea was as important a beverage to the colonies as it was to people living in Britain, and to allow the British to tax a near universal product, set the standard that Britain could tax whatever they wanted. -
Start of the Revolutionary War