Frustration With England
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- Sugar Act
- You can't smuggle sugar! There's a tax on it. You've got to pay for it.
- I didn't think you'd ever find me!
- Stamp Act
- We don't want to use stamps!
- I think we should send over our excess tea and put a tax on it.
- The company has lost a lot of money to this war. Any ideas on how we can get some back?
- The Sugar Act of 1764 was put in place to stop smuggling of sugar and molasses and to help pay for the French and Indian War.
- The Stamp Act of 1765 stated that all paper goods were required to have stamps as a way to get money to pay for the war. Few people used paper, but many more than just those who did were highly opposed to this idea.
- The Massachusetts colonists were being bad. They need to be punished. I think we should take full power over them.
- The Tea act of 1773 imported cheap tea to the colonies to reduce a surplus and to help get the British East India Company out of debt.
- Quartering Act
- I have no room for you in this small house
- The Boston Tea Party of 1773 occured after the Tea Act put taxes on tea and Britain started sending cheap tea, so colonists in Massachusetts dumped today's 4,000,000 dollars worth of tea into the Boston Harbor.
- I hate this stupid cheap tea, and I hate these stupid cheap taxes!
- The Massachusetts act was one of the Intolerable acts, and took away Massachusetts' right to self govern. It was British Parliament's reaction to the Boston Tea Party as a way to punish Massachusetts colonists.
- I agree! They aren't fit to govern themselves.
- The Quartering act of 1765 made it so that colonists were required to either let British soldiers stay in their home, or pay for shelter for them.
- You are legally required to provide me shelter, so tough
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