Causes of the Revolution

This act lowered the tax on molasses in order to stop colonial smuggling.

• The Townshend Acts

• The Sugar Act

• The Coercive Acts

• The Proclamation of 1763

This act allowed England to make all decisions for the colonists and tax anything they wanted.

• The Declaratory Act

• The Townshend Acts

• The Sugar Act

• The Stamp Act

This act allowed British soldiers to live in colonial homes.

• The Quebec Act

• The Stamp Act

• The Declaratory Act

• The Quartering Act

This law placed a tax on all printed material in the colonies including wills, contracts, newspapers, and playing cards.

• The Declaratory Act

• The Stamp Act

• The Intolerable Acts

• The Coercive Acts

This act gave an unfair advantage to a the British East India Company by allowing the British company to not pay tax on tea.

• The Tea Act

• The Townshend Act

• The Coercive Act

• The Declaratory Act

These acts placed a tax only on imported goods like paper, glass, tea, and lead.

• The Intolerable Acts

• The Coercive Acts

• The Townshend Acts

• Writs of Assistance

These very harsh acts were designed after the Boston Tea Party and included closing Boston Harbor until the colonists paid for the ruined tea.

• The Townshend Acts

• The Stamp Act

• The Sugar Act

• The Coercive Acts

What was the COLONIAL name for the acts that closed Boston Harbor, banned town meetings, and other harsh penalties?

• The Coercive Acts

• The Townshend Acts

• The Intolerable Acts

• The Proclamation of 1763

The Stamp Act taxed all ________ goods.

• paper

• exported

• trade

Also known as the Intolerable Acts in America, these included the Boston Port Act, Quartering Act, Administration of Justice Act, and the Massachusetts Government Act.

• Coercive Acts
• Navigation Acts
• Stamp Act
• Tea Act