Stamp Act - Tax on stamps, documents, and paper.
Tea Act - Sold the tea directly to colonists to prevent smuggling.
Townshend Act - Tax on tea, household goods, and hardware items.
Sugar Act - First act ; tax on sugar and mollasses.
The colonists called them the Intolerable Acts
Parliament passed four acts in 1774 aimed specifically at what was seen as the hotbed of rebellion, Boston.
The colonists called them the Intolerable Acts.
The British Parliament passed the Townsend Acts in June 1767, representing four measures devised by Charles Townsend, Chancellor of the Exchequer. The acts had two purposes: reformation of customs policy in the colonies and the raising of revenue through excises. The acts failed to accomplish both goals and were repealed after three years. The longer term effects of the acts, however, included the strengthening of colonial resistance to British tax and trade policies, British misunderstanding of colonial complaints, and administrative divisions between the West Indies and the continental colonies.
The colonists called them the Intolerable Acts.
Parliament passed four acts in 1774 aimed specifically at what was seen as the hotbed of rebellion, Boston. These measures were called the Intolerable Acts by the colonists.
The colonists called them the Intolerable Acts.
The four punishments for the Coercive Acts were the Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Administration of Justice Act, and Quartering Act. These acts were implemented by the British Parliament in response to the Boston Tea Party as a means to punish the colonists and assert British authority in the American colonies.
The colonists called them the Intolerable Acts
Parliament passed four acts in 1774 aimed specifically at what was seen as the hotbed of rebellion, Boston.
The British made acts that added taxes for the colonists. The taxes include the Sugar Act, the Stamp Act, the Townshend Acts, The Intolerable Acts, the Tea tax, and the currency act.
The Intolerable act, Proclamation of 1773, Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party.
The Tea Act let the company bypass the tea merchants and sell it directly to the colonists. The Intolerable Acts were four laws that the English colonists passed because they were so harsh. There was a fifth law that was called the Quebec act. It was a setup government for Canada, that gave complete religious freedom to french catholics.
To coerce someone is to make them do something by physical force. So a coercive act is the application of that force.
The colonists called them the Intolerable Acts.
The British Parliament passed the Townsend Acts in June 1767, representing four measures devised by Charles Townsend, Chancellor of the Exchequer. The acts had two purposes: reformation of customs policy in the colonies and the raising of revenue through excises. The acts failed to accomplish both goals and were repealed after three years. The longer term effects of the acts, however, included the strengthening of colonial resistance to British tax and trade policies, British misunderstanding of colonial complaints, and administrative divisions between the West Indies and the continental colonies.
The colonists called them the Intolerable Acts.