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A tax on sugar (3 pents per pound sugar). The colonists did not like this tax and first coined the term no taxation without representation. The British government revoked it in 1766.
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This law required that homes would support soldiers. The colonist disliked this because they owned their own homes and they had no control over the laws the affect them being passed. The law expired in 1776.
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A tax on all paper goods which required them to have royal stamps which cost different amounts of money for different goods. People who did not use the stamps were fined and if they faked the stamps they where killed which increased resistance. The government revoked the act in 1766.
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This was a tax on all imported goods. This hurt the colonist as they needed imported goods. The had no control over the law and so they could not help themselves through law. The law was repealed in 1770.
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The Tea Act let the British East India Company import tea to America to collect Townshend Taxes and undercut smuggled tea. This may have been the worse tax as the colonist could not even control the tea being imported. This was repealed in 1861.
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“List of British Acts on Colonial America.” Stamp Act, www.stamp-act-history.com/british-taxation-colonial-america/list-of-british-acts/.
