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Sugar Act
The sugar act stated "it is expedient that new provisions and regulations should be established for improving the revenue of this Kingdom ... " The suagr act was when the Parliment passed an act that said that they would divide the taxes in half from the Molasses Act of 1733 and enforce the taxes being collected. Many New England Ports lost a lot of money because it was a lot harder to smuggle sugar into the colonies and if they were caught they would be taken to war. -
Currency Act
The currency act said that further currency emissions effected private and public debts. This added on to the currency act of 1751 which prohibited the colonies making paper money. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act said that Great Britan could put British soldiers in barraks and public housing in the colonies. If there was not enough housing availible then inns or other houses would have to take the soldiers in. This angered many colonists because they did not want to bring soldiers into their homes and inns. The document said "An act for punishing Mutiny and Defertion, and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters." -
Stamp Act
The stamp act was an act that required printed things in the colonies was to be produced on stamped paper which was produced in England. -
Declaratory Act
The Declaratory Act came after the repeal of the Stamp Act. It was created to make sure that the colonists understood that the Parliment had as much athority in Britian as in the American Colonies. Colonists were outraged because they believed that the Declaratory act meant that more acts were going to come very soon. -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts were multiple acts passed by the Bristish Parliment. The first one came in 1767. The purpose of the acts was to get the colonists to pay for the salaries of the judges and Governors in the colonies. It also puished New York Colony for not following the Quatering Act. Merchants in the colonies started riots because they did not want to pay the salaries of judges and governors. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act said that American Colonist could not buy tea unless it was from the East India Company. This happened because the East India Company was nearing bankruptcy and the Bristish wanted to help them. The colonists repsonded by dumping tea in the Boston Harbor, which is known as the Boston Tea Party. -
Prohibitory Act
The act said that naval ports would be blocked against American Courts. The reaction of John Adams was “It throws thirteen colonies out of the royal protection, levels all distinctions, and makes us independent in spite of our supplications and entreaties... It may be fortunate that the act of independency should come from the British Parliament rather than the American Congress.”. The act came during the Revolutionary War.
