Acts
Sugar Act
Sugar Act
Date: On April 5, 1764,
Consist of: Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act, Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax. The Sugar Act reduced the rate of tax on molasses, while Grenville took measures that the duty be strictly enforced. The act foreign goods to be taxed including sugar, certain wines, coffee and more.
Stamp act
Date: March 22 in 1765
Consist of: Every newspaper, pamphlet, and other public and legal document had to have a Stamp on it that cost money. The colonist weren’t happy due to for many years it was free and this was the first time the British government direct tax within the economy.
Quartering Act
Date: March 24, 1765
Consist of: An act for the better payment of the army and their quarters meaning that the have to provide supplies and food for the British troop. (This British troop built at the end of the French and Indian war.) This law expanded until 1766
Townshend Act
Date: June 29, 1767
Consist of: Named for Charles Townshend, British Chancellor of the Exchequer. The parliament pass a new act in which import taxes on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, and tea. The colonist react the same way as the other act mentioned.
Boston Tea Party Act
Date: May 10, 1773,
Consist of: The tea act worse the finical trouble from the British so the Parliament passed this law in which it was designed to the East India Company which was floundering financially .This tea was to be shipped directly to the colonies, and sold at a bargain price. The Townshend Duties were still in place, however, and the radical leaders in America found reason to believe that this act was a maneuver to buy popular support for the taxes already in force.
Boston Port Act
Date: March 31, 1774
Consist of: The Boston Port Bill was one of the Coercive, is an intolerable act, the East India Company for the cost of the tea destroyed in the Boston Tea Party, and paid for the damage caused to the customs offices during the unrest.
Administration of Justice Act
Date: May 20, 1774
Consist of: Is another intolerable act, which that British officials accused of capital crimes in the execution their duties in suppressing riots. For example if any soldier committed a murder was send back to England.
Massachusetts Government Act
Date: May 20, 1774
Consist of: Also another intolerable act in which in Massachussets people rejected the ideas of violence and charter and provided for an unprecedented amount of royal control. Severe limits were placed on the powers of town meetings, the essential ingredient of American self-government.
Quartering Act
Date: June 2, 1774
Consist of: Is similar to the Quartering Act of 1775 were they increased the power of the government over the assembly and court meeting and these laws authorized billeting soldiers in occupied facilities, including private homes.
Quebec Act
Date: June 22, 1774
Consist of: It also a intolerable act in which the Parliament expanded In the southern Canada taking away land from the colonist, which had come under British rule through the Treaty of Paris in 1763. 
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