Stamp Act Townshend Acts Intolerable Acts Sugar Act Tea Act Turn around - Harbor is CLOSED!

Sugar Act: Tax on imported sugar; Colonists were in turn paying more for sugar than in the past; Colonists created the Committee of Correspondence (What did they talk/correspond about?); Repealed by the King Stamp Act: Tax on all paper; documents were considered illegal without the seal; Sons of Liberty (secret society) emerged; Patrick Henry gave an impassioned speech to the House of Burgess in Virginia; James Otis coined the phrase “taxation without representation is tyranny” (what’s tyranny?); Repealed by the King Townshend Acts: Tax on glass, lead, paint, paper and tea; Unwarranted searches for smuggled goods (illegal search and seizure); Boston Massacre erupts; Repealed by the King Tea Act: Colonists given only one company to buy tea from - British East India company; Limited choice and high cost angered colonists; Boston Tea Party Coercive/Intolerable Acts: Punishment for the Boston Tea Party; (1)Boston Harbor was closed, (2) Massachusetts’ charter was canceled (no colonial assembly), (3) Quartering Act – requiring colonists to house British soldiers; Colonial response was to form the First Continental Congress - ban trade with Great Britain and prepare formations of militias