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The Acts

The Acts. STAMP ACT CONGRESS. Tax Colonist boycotted all British goods. Attacked officials sent by Great Britain to enforce the stamp act, burned the stamps in the street. Many colonies sent representatives to a special meeting in New York, which they called, The Stamp Act Congress

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The Acts

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  1. The Acts

  2. STAMP ACT CONGRESS • Tax • Colonist boycotted all British goods. • Attacked officials sent by Great Britain to enforce the stamp act, burned the stamps in the street. • Many colonies sent representatives to a special meeting in New York, which they called, The Stamp Act Congress • Colonies voted and declared that Parliament did not have the right to pass taxes on the colonies because they did not have any representation in parliament. ‘No taxation without representation.

  3. SUGAR ACT • 1764 Act that put a three-cent tax on foreign refined sugar and increased taxes on coffee, indigo, and certain kinds of wine. • Banned importation of rum and French wines. • These taxes affected only a certain part of the population, but the affected merchants were very vocal. • Taxes were enacted without the consent of the colonists. • This was one of the first instances in which colonists wanted a • say in how much they were taxed.

  4. TOWNSHEND ACTS • Series of 1767 laws named for Charles Townshend, British Chancellor of the Exchequer (Treasurer). • These laws placed new taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea.

  5. TEA ACT • 1773 Act that gave a monopoly on tea sales to the East India Company. • American colonists could buy no tea unless it came from that company. • Refusal to unload the tea from the ships.

  6. BOSTON TEA PARTY Angry and frustrated at a new tax on tea, the Sons of Liberty, disguised as Mohawks, boarded three British ships and dumped 342 whole crates of British tea into Boston harbor on December 16, 1773. Similar incidents occurred in Maryland, New York, and New Jersey in the next few months, and tea was eventually boycotted throughout the colonies.

  7. INTOLERABLE ACTS Series of laws sponsored by British Prime Minister Lord North and enacted in 1774 in response to the Boston Tea Party. The laws were these: Impartial Administration of Justice Act, which allowed the royal governor of a colony to move trials to other colonies or even to England if he feared that juries in those colonies wouldn't judge a case fairly Massachusetts Bay Regulating Act made all law officers subject to appointment by the royal governor and banned all town meetings that didn't have approval of the royal governor Boston Port Act, which closed the port of Boston until the price of the dumped tea was recovered, moved the capital of Massachusetts to Salem, and made Marblehead the official port of entry for the Massachusetts colony. Devastated colonial economy. (continued on next slide)

  8. INTOLERABLE ACTS Quartering Act, which allowed royal troops to stay in houses or empty buildings if barracks were not available Quebec Act, which granted civil government and religious freedom to Catholics living in Quebec. Insult to British colonists who did not get same right. These Acts were the harshest so far of all the Acts passed by Parliament. Rather than keep the colonists down, the Intolerable Acts stirred the revolutionary spirit to a fever pitch.

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