British Taxation ActsFill out your chart as we go through the following Acts!

The Navigation Acts

What it did: Who it affected and how:

1. Colonists only allowed to sell raw materials to England

2. Colonists only allowed to buy manufactured goods from England

3. British soldiers could inspect homes/businesses

• Colonial business owners: unable to make a real profit

• Other colonists: had to pay higher prices for products

Proclamation of 1763

What it did: Who it affected and how:

1.Reserved all land west of the Appalachian Mountains to the Mississippi River for Native American tribes

• Colonists: had no access to land they had fought for; could not expand

• Natives: Could not live in the 13 colonies

Sugar Act (1764)

What it did: Who it affected and how:

1. Enforced the collection of taxes on imported molasses

2. Allowed British Navy to seize merchant vessels

• All colonists: molasses was main sweetener and now required all to pay taxes

• Smugglers: faced much higher degree of punishment

Currency Act (1764)

What it did: Who it affected and how:

1. Did not allow colonies to create paper money to be used to pay back debts to Great Britain • Had to use gold or

silver to pay debts

• All colonists: made it much more difficult to pay back debts since gold and silver was in short supply

Stamp Act (1765)

What it did: Who it affected and how:

1. All legal documents in the colonies have a tax stamp on them – stamp could only be bought from official tax collectors

• All colonists: most documents needed have a stamp, requiring everyone to pay the tax

Quartering Act (1765)

What it did: Who it affected and how:

1. Required that colonists house British troops in their homes if they ran out of space in the barracks.

• All colonists, but especially those in New England and middle colonies where most of the troops were sent

Declaratory Act (1766)

What it did: Who it affected and how:

1. Parliament’s authority was the same in America as in Britain and laws passed by Parliament had to be followed

• All colonists – made it illegal to disobey any future acts.

Townshend Acts (1767)

What it did: Who it affected and how:

1. Taxed imports of glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea

• Colonial merchants: had to pay tax on goods before the goods could even be taken off the ship

Intolerable Acts (1774)

What it did: Who it affected and how:

1. Closed port of Boston2. Suspended the

charter of Boston

• Colonial merchants in MA: made it difficult to import and export goods

• Colonists in MA: no longer had guarantee of rights without their charter