Sugar Act
Stamp Act
Townshend Act
Tea Act
Navigation Act
100
It put a duty on products.
What is the Sugar Act?
100
An act that required all colonists to buy special tax stamps for all kinds of products.
What was the stamp Act?
100
Only products that were brought into the colonies were taxed.
What is the Townshend acts?
100
An Act that allowed tea to be shipped directly to the colonies by the East India Company.
What is the Tea Act?
100
The colonists can only trade with England
What is the Navigation act?
200
Import Tax
What is a duty?
200
A petition to the king and parliament that demanded the end of the stamp act and sugar act.
What ended the stamp act?
200
1767
What year were the Townshed acts?
200
1773
What year was the Tea Act passed?
200
The law contributed to a successful ship building industry in New England.
How did the Navigation act affect the colonies?
300
Molasses
What was one of the taxed goods?
300
1766
What year did Parliament repeal the stamp act?
300
March 5, 1770
When did Parliament repeal all the townshed acts, except the one on tea?
300
Because it gave total control to the East India Company, there were many merchants that sold tea in the colonies that could not compete with the low prices of the East India Company tea.
Why did the colonists protest against the Tea Act?
300
By smuggling goods.
How did some of the colonists avoid the Navigation act?
400
Because they sometimes traded and smuggled goods.
Why did the colonial merchants protest against the sugar act?
400
Parliament had total authority over the colonies.
What effect did the Petition that ended the stamp act have on the colonies?
400
An angry mob of colonists in Boston surround a small group of soldiers. They threw rocks and snowballs at them. The scared soldiers fired at them, killing five and injuring six. It was later called the Boston Massacre.
How did the colonists protest to the townshed acts?
400
Because the price of tea was lowered.
Why did the Prime Minister of England think colonists would not object to the tea act?
400
In 1770
What year was the Navigation act repealed?
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