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What was the Sugar Act of 1764?
Britain put duties(or taxes) on imported goods such as sugar, coffee, molassas, silk and indigo.
What is an import?
A good that is brought into a country from another country.
What was the Stamp Act of 1765?
Britain required that the colonists buy a special stamp to be used on all business documents.
What brought on the opposition from the colonists?
1. the Stamp Act,
2. they did not feel that Britain had the right to tax them,
3. they did not feel they were represented in Parliament
What were the sons of library?
Organized the colonists to protest the Stamp Act.
The Stamp Act Congress met in 1765 - led by __ ___.
Samuel Adams
What did the Stamp Act Congress do?
They sent a petition to King George IV offering allegiance if he would repeal (take back) the Stamp Act.
What caused the breach between Britain and the colonists to widen?
Britain repeal the Stamp Act and then established the Townsend Acts.
What is the Townsend Acts?
Britain placed new duties (taxes) on such items as lead, glass, tea and paper.
What was the colonists' response to the Townsend Acts?
The colonists boycotted British merchants.
What did the colonists try to do with the Townsend Acts?
The colonial merchants tried to bypass the duties (taxes).
What did the British do when they found out that the colonial merchants were going around the Townsend Acts?
They widened the use of the Writs of Assistance.
What happen with the colonists after the Writ of Assistance was widen?
Samuel Adams and the Massachuetts legislature denounced the Townsend Acts.
What did Britain do when Samual Adams and the legislature denounced the Acts?
Britain sent in troops to maintain order.