multiple acts to attempt to strengthen control over the colonies. This eventually led to the colonies revolting and gaining freedom from the British power. The first act that parliament enforced was known as the Sugar Act. The Sugar Act cut the taxes of molasses and multiple other products. This tax on molasses affected the New England colonies because they would distill the molasses to make rum. This distilling process was bringing in good amounts of money to the colonies. The Sugar Act was supposed
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The Quartering Act was placed on the colonist to allow soldiers to be stationed in buildings including homes‚ ale houses‚ and inns in the towns. It was a way for the English to save money on costs to build barracks for the soldiers. This act was immediately disapproved by the colonist which is expected. When British soldiers are forced to live in homes and businesses. Invading the sense of privacy of the colonist. The English should not of made an act the forces colonist to accommodate personal that
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The British’s imposed acts from 1763 to 1776 caused the colonist to turn away from them and their ways of living. The start of this was the Proclamation Act‚ since the British didn’t want any more fighting with the Indian people they stopped movement towards the Appalachians by the colonists. This angered the colonist‚ because they wanted to make fur trades and gaining land. The colonist soon disregarded this act and continued moving westward. The following acts followed a pattern of
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treatment caused the Americans to revolt because of things like acts being passed without proper representation. This made colonist furious and later led to the American Revolution. The Sugar Act was one of the reasons Americans started to resist Britain and made way for the American Revolution. Britain’s parliament realized that the colonies were making great profit off of selling rum. Sugar was needed in order to make rum. By passing the Sugar Act‚ it would force the
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This Act allowed the colonists own representatives would be able to tax them. The colonies saw this Act as being unconstitutional. The colonists were very angry about the taxation laws that Great Britain set on them. The colonist created a mob of violence to scare the stamp collectors in order to make them leave their positions. Great Britain had to show colonists who was in control which in the article STAMP ACT‚ it says “ Parliament repealed the Stamp Act in 1766‚ but issued a Declaratory Act
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The first word that comes to most people’s mind when they hear the word revolution is war‚ but that’s not all that true when it comes to the American Revolution. The Stamp Act of 1765 provoked colonists to rebel against Great Britain‚ which resulted in the American Revolution. The revolution was fought between the years of 1775-1883. The people of the American colonies wanted independence from the ruling monarchies. However‚ there were two sides to this‚ those who stayed loyal to the crown‚ “Loyalists”
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The Acts imposed by Great Britain in 1754 and 1775 were Coercive Acts. The Coercive Acts were written by Thomas Jefferson. According to‚ Libertarianism.org “The Coercive Acts are called the intolerable Acts and are amounted to the declaration of martial law in Boston” (Libertarianism.org). Also‚ other acts that were imposed by Great Britain during 1754 and 1775 were the Murder Act‚ Quebec Act‚ and the Criminal Act. According to‚ Libertarianism.org “The Murder act was unfair because all Bostonians
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at this order. • 1764 - Sugar Act This act raised revenue by increasing duties on sugar imported from the West Indies. • 1764 - Currency Act Parliament argued that colonial currency had caused a devaluation harmful to British trade. They banned American assemblies from issuing paper bills or bills of credit. • 1764 - Committees of Correspondence Organized by Samuel Adams‚ these helped spread propaganda and information through letters. • 1765 - Quartering Act Britain ordered that colonists
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cost of the war between Great Britain and France‚ British officials began to establish new taxes in the Colonies. In 1765‚ a tax was passed by Great Britain known as the Stamp Act. This law required all colonists to pay a tax to Great Britain on all of the printed materials that they used‚ newspapers‚ magazines‚ and even playing cards. All of these materials were required to have a stamp placed on them‚ in order to show that the tax had been paid. Colonist were outraged‚ and responded by
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mountains and requires those already settled in those regions to return east in an attempt to ease tensions with Native Americans. April 5‚1764 - The Sugar Act is passed by the English Parliament to offset the war debt brought on by the French and Indian War and to help pay for the expenses of running the colonies and newly acquired territories. This act doubles the duties to imported sugar‚ textiles‚ coffee‚ and other items. This is more work for the colonies‚ for a war that they didn’t want to happen
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