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Sugar Act
The Sugar act placed a tax on items like foreign molasses, sugar, wine, and coffee. PIC CREDS: https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/the-british-acts-d84ee70a-0d45-49db-95b4-b1e1d0ba8471 -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was a tax that was placed on some paper goods. To show that the tax had been payed for, they would stamp a stamp on your item. Riots, protests, boycott, tarring and feathering of stamp agents, and the formation of the Sons of Liberty were all things that occurred or that were created while this act happened. PIC CREDS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamp_Act_Congress -
Quartering Act
This Act made colonists pay for any British soldier’s sleeping place, food, etc. PIC CREDS: https://sites.google.com/site/thecoerciveacts/quartering-act-of-1774 -
Boston Massacre
When fighting among British Soldiers and Colonists broke out, the colonists threw many harmful things at the soldiers to the point that shots began firing into the crowd. 5 of the colonists were dead. John Addams defended the British Soldiers in court. PIC CREDS: https://www.history.com/news/the-boston-massacre-245-years-ago -
Tea Act
The act granted the East India company the right to ship its tea directly to the colonies without first landing it in England, and to commission agents who would have the sole right to sell tea in the colonies. The colonists were still mad for reasons like the company's ability to bypass paying the tax and being able to use their own ships. PIC CREDS: https://sites.google.com/site/historyinfo00/boston-massacre/tea-act -
Boston Tea Party
The members of the Sons of Liberty disguised themselves as native Americans, boarded the East India company boats, and threw around 342 chests of tea into the harbor. PIC CREDS: http://www.cr-cath.pvt.k12.ia.us/lasalle/Resources/8th%20Websites%202013/Josh%20Sophia%20Brylie%20Nicole%20Rev%20War/Sophia%20Maher%20Rev.%20War/Boston_Tea_Party.html
