This act places a tax on sugar. Colonist Samuel Adams creates Committees of Correspondence to improve communication among the colonists to react to these new laws.

This act will tax newspapers, licenses, and any colonial paper products. The colonist write a series of resolutions that their rights were being taken away. A violent riot occurs in Boston in protest.

This act will place a tax on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. Tax officials could search for smuggled goods. Colonist will boycott and protest which become violent. British soldiers are sent into Boston to restore order.

Many of these taxes the colonists thought were unfair because they didn't get to have a say in these laws. They would say..

This act gives the British East India Company sole rights to sell tea in the colonies. Colonist fear this will drive them out of business and they dump tea into Boston Harbor as an act of protest.

An angry mob of Boston colonist confront British soldiers guarding a Customs House. Soldiers shoot into the crowd killing 5 colonists on March 5, 1770.

The Sons of Liberty disguised as Native Americans board three ships in Boston Harbor at night where they dump 340 tea chests overboard in protest of the Tea Act on December 16, 1773.

This act was passed to punish Boston for the Boston Tea Party by closing the Boston port and passing strict new rules making it horrible for the people in Boston. This further enrages the colonists.

What did the Quartering Act do?