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| 1764 Sugar Act | Reduced the tax on imported molasses. Colonists responded with protests, boycotts and the cry of "no taxation without representation." |
| 1765 Stamp Act | Taxed legal documents such as newspapers and printed materials. Colonists protested violently. Boycott of British googs began. |
| 1765 Quartering Act | Required colonists to house British soldiers. |
| 1766 Declaratory Act | England repealed the Stamp Act in the face of colonial protests, but passed this act giving Britain the right to rule the colonies any way they saw fit. |
| 1767 Townsend Acts | Import taxes on lead, paper, tea, paint and glass were collected at port. Thre British used this money to support its troops. |
| 1773 Tea Act | Was created to save the East India Company. It allowed the company to sell its surplus tea in the American Colonies. Group of Boston Patriots destroyed a shipment of tea in what became known as the Boston Tea Party. |
| 1774 Intolerable Acts | Also called the Coercive Act, it closed Boston Harbor until Boston paid for the tea destroyed at the Boston Tea Party. |
| 1775 Olive Branch Petition | A document sent to the KIng George III expressing the colonists loyalty and begging for the king to halt fighting until a solution could be found |
