 Taxes! Taxes! Taxes

Taxes  Sugar Act – began to enforce smuggling laws  Quartering Act – House and feed soldiers  Stamp Act – required on all legal documents, newspapers, anything printed  Remember it as a Paper Act

 Stamp Act Congress  Boycott  Parliament repeals Stamp Act but says it has the right to tax colonists  Main issue is taxation without representation

Townshend Revenue Act  Taxes on tea, lead, paper and paint to help pay for colonial governments  Repealed after a few years

Gaspee Incident

Sons of Liberty  Emerged to fight Stamp Act  Try to force Stamp Distributors (tax collectors) to resign  Printers  Leaders in Sons, also affected most by Stamp Act  Started in Boston, became a presence in every colony

Intolerable Acts  Port Bill – closed Boston Harbor  Government Act – positions now appointed instead of elected. Gave more power to royal governor  New Quartering Act  Administration of Justice Act  Allowed British officials to be tried in Britain for crimes committed in colonies  Easier trial

Quebec Act 1774

Quebec Act  Extended territory of Quebec  Took away western lands from colonies  Religious tolerance to Catholics  Most colonists were some sort of Protestant

Tea Act 1773  British East India Company  Monopoly on British tea imports  Many members of Parliamnet held shares in company  Permitted company to sell tea directly to colonist (no colonial middle men – tea was cheaper)  Expected that colonists would eagerly accept the cheaper tea