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Sugar Act
we set up these colonies originally because they were supposed to make us money and now we're spending all of this money on the colonies. He thought you know what, the colonists owe me. They owe me a lot of money, so in 1764 he set up the Sugar Act. So while colonists were not particularly happy about paying the three extra pence, but they were really mad about is that there was no taxation without representation -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was enacted by the British Parliament and it required that a stamp must be purchased from the British government and it was placed on all important documents, such as court papers, almanacs, newspapers, and playing cards. the Stamp Act was originally created to help pay for these extra troops that were in the colonies, but the colonists didn't want the troops there, so they didn't want to have to pay any extra money to support the troops. -
Alien and Sedition Acts
A series of laws signed by President Adams in 1798 that increased the residency requirement for American citizenship from five to fourteen years.