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Parliament passed the first law to raise colonial money for the crown. It was to end the smuggling trade in molasses and sugar from the French and Dutch West Indies. -
This act taxed newspapers, dice, playing cards, and more. This was the parliments first direct tax on the colonists. -
The Quartering Act made colonists even madder. The act provided barracks and supplies to British troops. -
British Parliament made a declaration that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. It was that British Parliament's taxing authority is the same in America as in great Britain. -
This helped pay the expenses involved in governing the American colonies. It put a tax on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. -
Massachusetts Circular Letter was written by Samuel Adams and James Otis Jr. and passed by the Massachusetts House of Representatives in response to the Townshend Acts. -
The Virginia House of Burgesses passed resolutions condemning Britain's actions against Massachusetts. -
There was a patriot mob in which the British soldiers shot several people and killed a boy. -
This was when the colonists relaxed their boycott of British imported goods. -
This was when a riot happened between citizens and soldiers. Many people got hurt.