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The Sugar Act was a law that attempted to curb the smuggling of sugar and molasses in the colonies.
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This act prohibited American colonies from issuing their own currency, angering many American colonists.
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Parliament's first direct tax on the American colonies.
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The act was repealed, and the colonies abandoned their ban on imported British goods.
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To help pay the expenses involved in governing the American colonies.
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Only Virginia's governor and legislature could tax its citizens.
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Parliament withdrew all of the Townshend Act (1767) taxes except for the tax on tea.
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On March 5, a group of soldiers surrounded by an unfriendly crowd opened fire, killing three Americans and fatally wounding two more
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American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea
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British troops planned to destroy American ammunition at Concord.
