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The Sugar Act
Putting a 3 cent-tax on foreign sugar along with increasing taxes on coffee, indigo, and certain kinds of wine. This act was created for three reasons; protect the British trade, prevent smuggling, and the French and Indian war took a toll on British money matters, forcing Americans to pay for their own protection. -
Currency Act
passed to help control the colonial currency system. During this act parliamentary favored the hard currency system and enforced it. Preventing the colonies from printing their own money and controlling the printing and usage of the money. Overall this act reduced most national debt. -
Stamp Act
This act would be described at tax imposed by the British government on the American colonies. The new tax was created for all American colonists, requiring them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other printed papers, even playing cards were taxed. The main goal was to raise money needed for military defenses of the colonies. -
Townshend Act
The Townshed act originated by Charles Townshend and passed by the English Parliament soon after the repeal of the Stamp Act. This act was designed to collect money from the colonists in America by applying customs duties on imports of glass, lead, certain paints, paper, and tea. This act had many names that people would call it; the Revenue Act, Indemnity Act, Commissioners of Customs Act, etc.. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act was designed to bring back up (expand) the East India Company which was going down hill financially and suffered with eighteen million pounds of unsold tea. The colonists were fed up with all of the taxation are refused to unload the tea cargoes on the ships, where 17 million pounds of tea that could have been sold to markets were left to rot until someone figured something out.