answers1: I'm pretty sure you'll find good explanations in your text
book. So far, you have asked four questions and all of them regard
your homework. I repeat YOUR homework.
answers2: I repeat YOUR homework
answers3: These are all Acts (laws) imposed by the British against the
American colonists that helped to spark the American Revolution. <br>
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I'm sure that you can find the answers in your textbook, and of
course, you can do further research on the 'Net.
answers4: repeat YOUR homework.
answers5: On February 6th, 1765 George Grenville rose in Parliament to
offer the fifty-five resolutions of his Stamp Bill. A motion was
offered to first read petitions from the Virginia colony and others
was denied. The bill was passed on February 17, approved by the Lords
on March 8th, and two weeks later ordered in effect by the King. The
Stamp Act was Parliament's first serious attempt to assert
governmental authority over the colonies. Great Britain was faced with
a massive national debt following the Seven Years War. That debt had
grown from £72,289,673 in 1755 to £129,586,789 in 1764*. English
citizens in Britain were taxed at a rate that created a serious threat
of revolt. <br>
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The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, would launch the
final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. The act was not
intended to raise revenue in the American colonies, and in fact
imposed no new taxes. It was designed to prop up the East India
Company which was floundering financially and burdened with eighteen
million pounds of unsold tea. This tea was to be shipped directly to
the colonies, and sold at a bargain price. The Townshend Duties were
still in place, however, and the radical leaders in America found
reason to believe that this act was a maneuver to buy popular support
for the taxes already in force. The direct sale of tea, via British
agents, would also have undercut the business of local merchants. <br>
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Colonists in Philadelphia and New York turned the tea ships back to
Britain. In Charleston the cargo was left to rot on the docks. In
Boston the Royal Governor was stubborn & held the ships in port, where
the colonists would not allow them to unload. Cargoes of tea filled
the harbor, and the British ship's crews were stalled in Boston
looking for work and often finding trouble. This situation led to the
Boston Tea Party. <br>
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On April 5, 1764, Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar
and Molasses Act (1733), which was about to expire. Under the Molasses
Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per
gallon on the importation of foreign molasses. But because of
corruption, they mostly evaded the taxes and undercut the intention of
the tax — that the English product would be cheaper than that from the
French West Indies. This hurt the British West Indies market in
molasses and sugar and the market for rum, which the colonies had been
producing in quantity with the cheaper French molasses. The First Lord
of the Treasury, and Chancellor of the Exchequer Lord Grenville was
trying to bring the colonies in line with regard to payment of taxes.
He had beefed up the Navy presence and instructed them to become more
active in customs enforcement. Parliament decided it would be wise to
make a few adjustments to the trade regulations. The Sugar Act reduced
the rate of tax on molasses from six pence to three pence per gallon,
while Grenville took measures that the duty be strictly enforced. The
act also listed more foreign goods to be taxed including sugar,
certain wines, coffee, pimiento, cambric and printed calico, and
further, regulated the export of lumber and iron. The enforced tax on
molasses caused the almost immediate decline in the rum industry in
the colonies. The combined effect of the new duties was to sharply
reduce the trade with Madeira, the Azores, the Canary Islands, and the
French West Indies (Guadelupe, Martinique and Santo Domingo (now
Haiti)), all important destination ports for lumber, flour, cheese,
and assorted farm products. The situation disrupted the colonial
economy by reducing the markets to which the colonies could sell, and
the amount of currency available to them for the purchase of British
manufactured goods. This act, and the Currency Act, set the stage for
the revolt at the imposition of the Stamp Act. <br>
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