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The British needed more revenue so they turned to colonies. This increased goods on non-British shipped goods. -
Required the Colonists to make their homes into places for soldiers to live in. -
The British established taxes on the Colonists for paper, cards, newspapers, pamphlets, legal documents, and dice. -
the outcome of all the protesting got the Stamp act repealed. The resistance to British goods ended. -
On the same day the stamp act was repealed, the Declaratory Act was placed. This law meant that Britain could make laws in the colonies. -
The colonists defied the new taxes, which in return, lowered Britain's sales of their inputs. -
The British asked Parliament if they could tax paper, lead, tea, paint, and glass. Parliament agreed to establish the Townshend Acts. -
Samuel Adams wrote a letter to parliament which stated the issue of being taxed without any representation. -
British soldiers shot their guns on an aggravated crowd of Colonists. They were put on trial, and were found not guilty. John Adams was the lawyer that saved the soldiers. -
Parliament was not profiting from taxing the colonies, this was caused by the boycott against British goods. They removed the act except the tax on tea.