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This act was founded in an attempt to lessen smuggling o rum and molasses over the border. It also taxed some goods going into the colonies, like sugar, and cloth.
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This act required all legal papers, like divorce files, or birth certificates, and newspapers and pamphlets, to be stamped with the "royal watermark." This watermark was very expensive and angered the colonists.
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The quartering act required all colonial assemblies to pay for the supplies that went to supply the British troops fighting in the seven years war.
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The declaratory act repealed the stamp act, like the colonists wanted, but it then declared that Britain has the right to tax the people without representation.
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Taxes were levied on tea, glass, lead, paper and paint to pay for the administration (government) that would rule the colonies. The colonies scream at Britain for no taxation without representation.
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The colonists had to pay a tax to Britain because of the Townshend act, which made them pay 3 cents a pound for tea. This also gave the East India tea company a monopoly because Britain gave it the right to sell tea directly to the colonies without going through England first.