Crown’s officiants‚ preventing smuggling‚ controlling the settler’s expansion‚ and increasing taxes (Schultz‚ 2009). Through the Orders of Council‚ the Proclamation of 1763‚ Sugar Act of 1764‚ the Quartering Act of 1765‚ and the Stamp Act of 1765 the Crown laid bare its intentions towards the colonies. Although‚ these acts only served to agitate a population already once removed from an overbearing monarchy. The question remains‚ how would the colonist react to these new restrictions?
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The Sugar Act Sugar and molasses were important commodities for Britain since they were its source of revenue from the colonies. The British West Indies were originally the colonists’ main molasses provider; however the colonists bought molasses from foreign markets where the commodity was cheaper. Because the colonists depended on other countries‚ the British government passed the Molasses Act in 1733‚ which implemented a tax of six pence per gallon on molasses bought from non-British colonies
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multiple acts to attempt to strengthen control over the colonies. This eventually led to the colonies revolting and gaining freedom from the British power. The first act that parliament enforced was known as the Sugar Act. The Sugar Act cut the taxes of molasses and multiple other products. This tax on molasses affected the New England colonies because they would distill the molasses to make rum. This distilling process was bringing in good amounts of money to the colonies. The Sugar Act was supposed
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Parliament passed the Currency Act of 1764 which terminated the making of paper money for the colonies. Colonist were subjected to only use gold and silver. But there wasn’t any gold or silver mines in America which caused a shortage of currency. So the only way the colonist could obtain gold and silver is to trade with England. This was only to ensure a profit for themselves. The Currency Act threatened to destabilize the colonial economy. Another act passed by Parliament that helped destabilize
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The Quartering Act was placed on the colonist to allow soldiers to be stationed in buildings including homes‚ ale houses‚ and inns in the towns. It was a way for the English to save money on costs to build barracks for the soldiers. This act was immediately disapproved by the colonist which is expected. When British soldiers are forced to live in homes and businesses. Invading the sense of privacy of the colonist. The English should not of made an act the forces colonist to accommodate personal that
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treatment caused the Americans to revolt because of things like acts being passed without proper representation. This made colonist furious and later led to the American Revolution. The Sugar Act was one of the reasons Americans started to resist Britain and made way for the American Revolution. Britain’s parliament realized that the colonies were making great profit off of selling rum. Sugar was needed in order to make rum. By passing the Sugar Act‚ it would force the
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The British’s imposed acts from 1763 to 1776 caused the colonist to turn away from them and their ways of living. The start of this was the Proclamation Act‚ since the British didn’t want any more fighting with the Indian people they stopped movement towards the Appalachians by the colonists. This angered the colonist‚ because they wanted to make fur trades and gaining land. The colonist soon disregarded this act and continued moving westward. The following acts followed a pattern of
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at this order. • 1764 - Sugar Act This act raised revenue by increasing duties on sugar imported from the West Indies. • 1764 - Currency Act Parliament argued that colonial currency had caused a devaluation harmful to British trade. They banned American assemblies from issuing paper bills or bills of credit. • 1764 - Committees of Correspondence Organized by Samuel Adams‚ these helped spread propaganda and information through letters. • 1765 - Quartering Act Britain ordered that colonists
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cost of the war between Great Britain and France‚ British officials began to establish new taxes in the Colonies. In 1765‚ a tax was passed by Great Britain known as the Stamp Act. This law required all colonists to pay a tax to Great Britain on all of the printed materials that they used‚ newspapers‚ magazines‚ and even playing cards. All of these materials were required to have a stamp placed on them‚ in order to show that the tax had been paid. Colonist were outraged‚ and responded by
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mountains and requires those already settled in those regions to return east in an attempt to ease tensions with Native Americans. April 5‚1764 - The Sugar Act is passed by the English Parliament to offset the war debt brought on by the French and Indian War and to help pay for the expenses of running the colonies and newly acquired territories. This act doubles the duties to imported sugar‚ textiles‚ coffee‚ and other items. This is more work for the colonies‚ for a war that they didn’t want to happen
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