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Stamp Act

Quartering Act

Currency Act

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Townsend Revenue Act

Sugar Act

Declaratory Act

Tea Act

gave a monopoly on tea sales to the East India Company and then lowered the price on this East India tea so much that it was way below tea from other suppliers

required that Colonists purchase stamps and stamped paper from Britain for all official documents, commercial writings and important papers

stated that Colonists were required to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing. It also required colonists to provide food for any British soldiers in the area

reduced the rate of tax on molasses from six pence to three pence per gallon, but also taxed sugar, certain wines, coffee, pimiento, cambric and printed calico, and further, regulated the export of lumber and iron

stated that Parliament's authority was the same in America as in Britain and asserted Parliaments authority to pass laws that were binding on the American colonies

prohibited the Colonists from printing or issuing any new money and gave Britain complete control of the colonial currency system

collected revenue from the colonists in America by putting customs duties on imports of glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea for the purpose of paying the salaries of the governor and other British authorities in the colonies

Five laws passed to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party: closing of the port of Boston, King appointing all officials to the government of Massachusetts, British officers accused of crimes tried in Britain, British troops quartered on the private homes of colonists without their