Revenue Acts

  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act
    -The sugar act taxed colonists 3 pence for one pound of sugar
    -The colonists didn't like the sugar act because there was no "taxation without representation"
    -The British government ignored any protesting
    https://www.britannica.com/event/Sugar-Act
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    -The British government taxed the colonists on stamps that had to be used on most paper items, including cards, legal documents, newspapers etc.
    -The colonists thought the taxes violated their rights as British citizens, the started a stamp act congress and declared colonies should not be taxed by parliament
    -The British felt they were doing the right thing because the colonies were receiving the benefit of British troops
  • Townshend Acts

    Townshend Acts
    -They taxed colonists on imported goods to the American colonies
    -They protested and refused to import British goods until the act was repealed
    -British troops were sent to the colonies which escalated to the Boston Massacre
    https://www.enotes.com/homework-help/how-did-british-government-react-colonists-protest-365782
  • Tea Act

    Tea Act
    -The British government taxed the colonists on tea imported or sold in the colonies
    -The colonists didn't want to buy tea from one company and they believed Parliament didn't have the right to tax tea
    -King George closed Boston harbor until the tea lost was all paid for
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts
    -The acts were meant to punish the colonists for the Boston tea party
    -The colonists decided not to listen to the acts they thought it violated their rights
    -The British were fed up with how the colonists were acting so they made up these acts