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Sugar Act
British Parliament passed the "Stamp Act" to help pay for British troops in the colonies during the Seven Years War. The act required the colonists to pay a tax, that was represented by a stamp, on many forms of papers, documents, and playing cards. -
Currency Act
The colonies suffered a constant shortage of currency with which to conduct trade. On September 1, 1764, Parliament passed the Currency Act, effectively assuming control of the colonial currency system. The act baned the issue of any new bills and the reissue of existing currency. -
Opposition to the Stamp Act
In summer of 1765, a group of Boston artisans, shopkeepers, and businessmen formed a group known as the Loyal Nine to resist the Stamp Act. The Loyal Nine planned to lead the public in forcing stamp distributors, who alone could collect all the money for stamped paper, to resign before taxes were due on November 1, 1765. -
Colonial Protest
The Congress passed a "Declaration of Rights and Grievances," which claimed that American colonists were equal to all other British citizens, protested taxation without representation, and stated that, without colonial representation in Parliament, Parliament could not tax colonists. -
Stamp act
The Stamp Act of 1765 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be made on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp. -
Quartering act
The British Parliament passed the Quartering Act, one of the many measures primarily aimed at raising revenue from the British colonies in America.The act did require colonial governments to provide and pay for feeding and sheltering any troops that were stationed in their own colony. -
Declaratory Act
Declaratory Act, declaration by the British Parliament that goes along with the repeal of the Stamp Act. It stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain. Parliament had directly taxed the colonies for revenue in the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act . -
Repeal of stamp act
On March 18, 1766, exactly 250 years ago, after four months of widespread protest in America, the British Parliament repealed the Stamp Act, a taxation measure enacted to raise revenues for a standing British army in America. -
Townshend act
The Townshend Acts were a series of measures, passed by the British Parliament in 1767, that taxed goods imported to the American colonies. But American colonists, who had no representation in Parliament, saw the Acts as an abuse of power. -
Resistance to the quartering act in New York
The Resistance to the Quartering Act was strongest in New York.The New Yorkers reasoned that it was unfair to expect them to pay the full cost of Thomas Gage's growing army. Arguing between the assembly and British officials continued into the fall, when the legislature voted to not fund at all.