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Sugar Act
passed in 1764, Was a tariff on sugar and Molasses entering the colonies. -
Currency Act
protected British merchants and creditors from being paid in depreciated colonial currency. It also regulated paper money. -
Stamp Act
the tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used which included Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed. -
Quartering Act
It Authorized British Commanders to soldiers in vacant private homes, and other buildings. -
Townsend Acts
A act placed on American colonies by placing import taxes on many of the British products bought by Americans, including lead, paper, paint, glass and tea. -
Boston Massacre
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Tea Act
British law that gave the East India company special concessions in the colonial tea business, and it shuts out Colonial tea merchants. -
Boston Tea Party
Members of the Sons of liberty, dressed up as Mohawk Indians, dumped 18,000 pounds of the East India Company tea into the Boston Harbor. -
Intolerable Acts
A series of laws that tightened control over the colonies