Tea Act
What year was the Tea Act passed?
1773.
What year was the Stamp Act passed?
1765.
What year was the Sugar Act passed?
1764.
What year was the Coercive Act passed?
1774.
What year was the Townshend Act passed?
1767.
Why did the Parliament pass the Tea Acts?
To help the East India Company with Tea taxes.
Why did Parliament pass the Stamp Act?
To pay for troops in the Seven Year War.
Why did Parliament pass the Sugar Act?
To raise Colonial money for the Crown.
Why did Parliament pass the Coercive Acts?
To punish the Colonists.
Why did the parliament pass the Townshend Acts?
To help pay the expenses involved in governing the American colonies.
This event was caused by anger over the Tea Act.
The Boston Tea Party.
What year did the British begin to impose the Stamp Act?
1765.
What did British legislation try to end?
The sugar and molasses smuggling trade.
In the Coercive Act what did they block?
All exports (and imports) from Boston.
What effect did the Townshend Act have on the goods of Great Britain?
It taxed them.
Who led the Boston Tea Party?
Samual Adams.
What year was the Stamp Act repealed.
1776.
Who started the Sugar Act?
George Grenvile.
The Coercive Act was a series of 4 ____ to punish who?
Laws to punish colonists.
What resources were taxed in the Townshend Act?
Glass, lead, paper, tea.
What percentage of the tea was green tea that was dumped during the Boston Tea Party?
22%. (Sorry this was a really hard question)
What group took to the streets to protest against the Stamp Act?
The Sons of Liberty and The Daughters of Liberty.
Who or what did the Sugar Act disturb?
Colonial economy.
What were only the two items that passed into Boston harbor?
Fuel and wheat.
What did the Townshend Act lead up to?
Divided American colonists into patriots and loyalists.