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Sugar Act
It passed the first law specifically aimed at raising the colonists money for the Crown. -
Currency Act
This act prohibited American colonies from issuing their own currency, angering many American colonists. -
Stamp Act
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. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act required the colonies to provide barracks and supplies to British troops which angered American colonists. -
Declaratory Act
This act stated that Parliament could make laws binding the American colonies "in all cases whatsoever." -
Repeal of the Stamp Act
The act was repealed, and the colonies ended their ban on imported British goods. -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts were a series of measures that taxed goods imported to the American colonies. -
Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British 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. -
Massachusetts Circular Letter
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. -
Tea Act
This act reduced the tax on imported British tea. This act gave British merchants an unfair advantage in selling their tea in America.