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Taxes were placed on sugar, molasses, and other products that were imported from America. It was aimed at smuggling trades. It also was created to increase the income of the British Empire. They put the tax at six pence per gallon. The colonists could see what the British were doing so they had no need to buy sugar or molasses anymore. -
This act was passed alongside the Sugar Act. It banned the printing and issuance of paper money. It prohibited the issue of any new bills. This act led to many protests by the American colonists. The British were uncomfortable with this act, because there were regular fluctuations in the colonial economies. -
The Stamp Act was passed because it was meant to help British troops pay for their time in the colonies during the Sevens Year War. This act made the colonists start paying taxes to the British Government. The colonists thought the British Government was abusing their power and not treating the colonists as citizens. The British Government was probably making lots of money on the taxes. -
To help pay for the American colonies, they placed taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. The colonies again, decided not to buy these products from the British Government. After the colonists refused to buy good from the British, they repealled the Townshend Act. -
The Intolerable Acts were a series of four laws passed by the British to punish the colonies from the Boston Tea Party. The four acts were the Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act, and the Quartering Act. The colonies began to feel fear as they thought the British were going to place more acts eventually. The British hoped that this act would isolate the radicals in Massachusetts.