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Revenue Acts
Works cited
"1765 – Stamp Act." 1765 – Stamp Act. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 July 2016.
"Tea Act 1773." Tea Act 1773. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 July 2016. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act made the colonists provide housing, food, and drinks for the British soldiers for free. This really angered the colonists, because a lot of the time the soldiers would be rude and not appreciate it. They didn't really do anything about it, except for when New York refused to fund the Act. The British didn't take away this act, they just updated it. -
Stamp Act
This act was a way for the British to gain money by making the colonists purchase a tax stamp before they could buy paper, playing cards, dice, and other items. This really angered the colonists because their hard earned money was going to soldiers that were staying in their country. They protested and boycotted the paper which led to the British taking the Stamp Act away. -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts put a revenue tax on items like wine, fruit, glass, paints, lead, paper, and other items. This was to help the British gain more money. The colonists really hated these new, more subtle ways for the British to gain money, and so they protested these new acts. The British decided to take away the newly formed Massachusetts legislature, and they took away the act. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act interestingly enough wasn't a tax on tea, it was a right for only the East India Company to sell tea in the colonies. The tax came from the Townshend Acts. But, the colonists really didn't like this Act which led them to boycott the tea and they did protests like the Boston Tea Party when the colonists dumped loads of the tea into the harbor. So, the British decided it wasn't worth it and the East India Company was going bankrupt, so they took away the Tea Act. -
Intolerable Acts
These acts were a series of five laws that the British hoped would give them back authority and power in the colonies. They did things like close down the Boston Harbor, give the British courts power in the colonies, and it began a new Quartering Act, but with stricter rules. The colonists were very upset with these laws, and they made the first continental congress, and they started fights that were the beginning of the revolution. The British then sent more soldiers and went to war.