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It passed the first law specifically aimed at raising the colonists money for the Crown. -
This act prohibited American colonies from issuing their own currency, angering many American colonists. -
Parliament's first direct tax on the American colonies. This act was made to raise money for Britain. It taxed newspapers, almanacs, pamphlets, legal documents, dice, and playing cards. -
The Quartering Act required the colonies to provide barracks and supplies to British troops which angered American colonists. -
This act stated that Parliament could make laws binding the American colonies "in all cases whatsoever." -
The act was repealed, and the colonies ended their ban on imported British goods. -
The Townshend Acts were a series of measures that taxed goods imported to the American colonies. -
John Dickinson declared that Parliament could not tax the colonies, called the Townshend Acts unconstitutional, and denounced the suspension of the New York Assembly as a threat to colonial liberties. -
A statement, approved by the Massachusetts House of Representatives, which attacked Parliament's persistence in taxing the colonies without proper representation, and which called for unified resistance by all the colonies. -
This act reduced the tax on imported British tea. This act gave British merchants an unfair advantage in selling their tea in America.