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Description- Cut the duty on foreign molasses from 6 to 3 pence per gallon, retained a high duty on foreign refined sugar, prohibited the importation of all foreign rum.
Colonists Reaction- With a protest.
British Gov't Reaction- Refused to listen and placed a three-penny duty. -
Description- Required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards.
Colonists Reaction- They were angered by the Stamp act and quickly acted to oppose it.
British Gov't Reaction- They believed that the colonists were being greedy and ungrateful. -
Description- Stated that the Great Britain would house its soldiers in American barracks and public houses.
Colonists Reaction- They disputed the legality of this Act because it violated the Bill of Rights of 1689.
British Gov't Reaction- Parliament suspended the Province of New York's Governor and legislature. -
Description- Closed the Port from all commerce and ordered the citizens of Boston to pay a large fine to compensate for the tea thrown into the river during the Boston Tea Party.
Colonists Reaction- They didn't view the Act as just Boston's problem, they believed that all colonies had to unit against taxation or they would lose their rights.
British Gov't Reaction- They reestablished British authority in the colonies. -
Description- A series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party.
Colonists Reaction- They responded with a show of unity.
British Gov't Reaction- They condemned the Intolerable Acts as a violation of the British Law.