Taxed sugar and molasses.

Was the first act passed by

the British to raise money
SUGAR ACT 1764
after the French and Indian
War.

An official stamp had to be

placed on all paper related
items: newspapers,
STAMP ACT 1765
magazines, wills, playing
cards.

Required colonists to feed

and house British soldiers
QUARTERING ACT 1765
in their own home.

Parliament had the power

to make laws, including
taxes, for the colonies. This
DECLARATORY ACT 1766
was an attempt to stop acts
of rebellion; it did not
work!
Placed taxes on glass, lead,
paint, paper, and tea. This
law was really an attempt
TOWNSHEND ACTS 1767
by the British to stop
smuggling in the colonies.

British soldiers shot 5

citizens in the streets of
BOSTON MASSACRE 1770
Boston after an argument.

This made British tea

cheaper than colonial tea. It
made the colonists feel
TEA ACT 1773
“snubbed” by the British.
 Bostonians dumped British
tea into Boston Harbor as a
BOSTON TEA PARTY 1773
response to the insulting
Tea Act.

Also called the Coercive Acts.

As punishment for the Boston
Tea Party, Britain closed
INTOLERABLE ACTS 1774 Boston harbor, cancelled
Massachusetts’s charter,
forbade public meetings, and
sent those accused of crimes
to England for trial.