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End of the French and Indian War.
When the French and Indian War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris. -
Legislation/Acts
The Legislation/Acts after the French and Indian War were acts passed by the British government after the war to help get out of the war debt. These acts were known as the Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Declatory Act, Townshend Acts, and The Intolerable Acts. This started with the Sugar Act. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act wassup created to prevent the problem of sugar being smuggled. This put a tax on materials like molasses, sugar, and other imported goods. This act actually ended up angering the colonists and caused an increase in smuggling and also a surge of riots and boycotts. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was an act passed by the British government that made it so colonists had to pay taxes for items like stamps, newspapers, and many other materials that needed to be printed. The result of this act was boycotts on certain items and protests across the colonies. -
Declaratory Act
The Declaratory Act was passed just as the stamp act was repealed. This act claimed that the British government could make laws that binded the colonies in all circumstances. The colonist reaction to this act was not originally negative because the colonists were releived about the stamp act being repealed, but later on it began to cause more anger towards the British Parliament. -
Townshend Act
The Townshend Act placed a tax on more imported goods, specifically glass, lead, tea, paint, and paper. The reaction to this act was more boycotts and colonist began to write letters in protest, this act just added to the growing resentment colonists were feeling toward Britain. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act was created in order to assist the British EIC by making the EIC the sole distributor of tea in America. Although this act did not impose any taxes it still angered the colonists because they saw it as being forced to support the British government, this ended in the colonists throwing the Boston Tea Party.