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Timeline of Revenue Acts
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Navigation Act
This act regulated trade in the colonies. It said the colonies had to use English ships and that most products had to go to England to be processed and distributed -
Sugar Act
Parliamentary measures designed to increase Great Britain's profits from the lucrative West Indian and North American sugar trade. Placed tariffs on sugar, wine, coffee, and other items imported by the colonies. -
Stamp Act
Required that revenue stamps be affixed to all printed documents in the American colonies, it made breaking the navigation acts very hard, nearly impossible. -
Declaratory Act
It stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain -
Townshend Acts
Four measures enacted to raise revenue to pay the salaries of British governors and other officials in the colonies; taxed a wide variety of imports, including glass, lead, paints, paper, silk, and tea.
