Taxation Timeline

  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act
    Sugar Act was passed. This act taxed different types of sugar. For example, coffee, indigo, wine, silk, molasses, and more. It was intended to encourage trade with the British West Indies at the expense of the French and Dutch West Indies. It effectively decreased sneaking, yet it enormously upset the economy of the American settlements by expanding the expense of many imported things, and diminishing products to non-British business sectors.
  • Currency Act

    Currency Act
    The Currency Act was passed. Parliament wanted control of the provincial cash framework. The demonstration disallowed the issue of any new bills and the reissue of existing cash.
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    The Stamp Act was passed. The British Parliament passed this act to help pay for British soldiers positioned in the states during the Seven Years' War. The demonstration required the pioneers to settle an assessment, addressed by a stamp, on different types of papers, archives, and playing cards.
  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act
    The Quartering Act was passed. One of a progression of measures fundamentally pointed toward raising income from the British states in America. The demonstration required frontier legislatures to give and pay to take care of and shield any soldiers positioned in their state.
  • Declaratory Act

    Declaratory Act
    The Declaratory Act was passed. Parliament passed it to certify its ability to enact for the provinces "in all cases at all". The announcement expressed that Parliament's position was something very similar in America as in Britain and attested Parliament's power to pass laws that were restricting on the American states.
  • Townshend Acts

    Townshend Acts
    The Townshend Acts were passed. They were a progression of measures, passed by the British Parliament in 1767, that burdened products imported to the American provinces. Yet, American pilgrims, who had no portrayal in Parliament, considered the to be as a maltreatment of force. The colonists despised this act.
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    The Boston Massacre was a showdown in which British officers shot and killed a few groups while being irritated by a horde of colonists in Boston.
  • Tea Act

    Tea Act
    The Tea Act was passed. The demonstration conceded the organization the option to deliver its tea straightforwardly to the settlements without first landing it in England, and to commission specialists who might have the sole right to sell tea in the provinces.
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    American pioneers, disappointed and furious at Britain for forcing "tax imposition without any political benefit," unloaded 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts
    The Intolerable Acts were passed. They were correctional laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were intended to rebuff the Massachusetts settlers for their rebellion in the Tea Party fight in response to changes in tax assessment by the British Government.
  • New England Restraining Act

    New England Restraining Act
    The New England Restraining Act was passed by Parliament to rebuff the provinces for their blacklist of British merchandise. The law restricted the New England settlements from exchanging with some other nation with the exception of Great Britain or the British West Indies.