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This act cut the duty on foreign molasses from 6-3 pence per gallon. It alarmed the colonists because it made it more difficult to evade paying the tax on molasses. This act means a British law passed by Parliament in 1764 to make money from the American Colonies to help pay for the British Army in North America, the money was raised by taxing goods and enforcing the Navigation Acts. The controversial law was a cause of the American Revolution. -
This act required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp on various forms of paper, documents, and playing cards. The Stamp act led to an uproar in America over an issue that was to be a major cause of the Revolution: Taxation without representation. -
This act gave the East India Company a tax break on their tea,which made it cheaper than tea that was being smuggled into the colonies from other places. -
This made American colonists angry at Britain for imposing "Taxation without Representation". Dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor. -
This established the procedures of governance for the province of Quebec. This act was a major cause in the American Revolutionary War and it helped provoke an invasion of Quebec. -
This act removed colonies from the protection of the crown, banning trade with them, and allowing seizure of American ships at sea. The prohibitory act doomed colonial trade vessel attacks by England as well as other colonies. The colonials declared independence because they wanted to be free from britian. -
This was a series of measures, passed by the British Parliament in 1767, that taxed goods imported to the American Colonies. When the colonists resisted, Britain sent troops to collect taxes, further heightening the tensions that led to the American Revolutionary War,