Paul: Causes and effects/ What was each act?

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OMG this is so familiar from Grade 7 last year!! Pretty much the cause
of each act was to gain more taxes. Sugar act placed taxes on stuff
like sugar and molasses. Stamp act raised taxes on stamps, which made
it more costly to get a newpaper or send a letter. Townshend act I
cannot remember. Tea act put taxes on...what else but tea! and
Intolerable Acts, I kind of forget what that was for. Pretty much ti
was all taxation without representation. I guess you could say the
cause of these Acts being created was to gain more taxes, and the
effect was that the colonists became rebellious, and that's where The
American Revolution came into play, and the Boston Tea Party incident.
Hope this helps!
answers2: ok
answers3: Revenue Act Of 1767
answers4: Sugar Act (1764)- First Revenue raising act for Britain. It
was supposed to place a high tax on sugar from the West Indies;
however, the colonies rebelled forcing the crown to back down. 
 
Stamp Act (1765)- A way of raising revenue for the military
expenditure after the French and Indian War. It required a stamp on
about 50 items. Britain believed it was a perfectly reasonable act.
The colonists saw no need for it, and they felt it jeopardized their
rights as Englishmen. It sparked the ideology of "No taxation without
representation". 
 
Townshend Acts (1767)- It required the suspension of New York until
they accepted the Quartering Act. They also created duties on colonial
imports, which lead to colonial resistance. 
 
Tea Act (1773)- It is a tax break on tea. Colonists were not buying
tea due to the Revenue Act, and the East India Company needed money.
The colonists did not see it as a tax break, and it did not go over
well, led to Boston Tea Party. 
 
Intolerable/Coercive Acts (April 1774) Britain's response to the
Boston Tea Party. The acts closed the Boston port, until the tea was
paid for from the Tea Party. New Quartering Act issued, and forbid
town meetings without governmental consent. 
 
 
I hope this helps.
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RE: 
Causes and effects/ What was each act? 
Sugar Act 
Stamp Act 
Townshend Acts 
Tea Act 
Intolerable Acts 
 
sorry its for my review sheet and the test is tomorrow and i need help
answers7: Revenue Act Of 1764
answers8: Sugar Act: 
 
The Sugar Act (citation 4 Geo. III c. 15), passed on April 5, 1764,
was a revenue-raising Act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain.
It revised the earlier Sugar and Molasses Act, which had imposed a tax
of six pence per gallon on molasses in order to make English products
cheaper than those from the French West Indies. 
 
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_Act"
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Effect on the American colonies: 
 
The Sugar Act was passed by Parliament on April 5, 1764, and it
arrived in the colonies at a time of economic depression. A good part
of the reason was that a significant portion of the colonial economy
during the Seven Years War was involved with supplying food and
supplies to the British Army. Colonials, however, especially those
impacted directly as merchants and shippers, assumed that the highly
visible new tax program was the major culprit. As protests against the
Sugar Act developed, it was the economic impact rather than the
constitutional issue of taxation without representation, that was the
main focus for the Americans.[6] 
 
New England especially suffered economic losses from the Sugar Act.
The stricter enforcement made smuggling more dangerous and risky, and
the profit margin on rum, so the colonists argued, was too small to
support any tax. Forced to increase their prices, many Americans, it
was feared, would be priced out of the market. The British West
Indies, on the other hand, now had undivided access to colonial
exports and with supply well exceeding demand the islands prospered
with their reduced expenses while all New Englanders saw the revenue
from their exports decrease. The foreign West Indies had also been the
primary colonial source for specie, and as the reserves of specie were
depleted the soundness of colonial currency was threatened.[7] 
 
Two prime movers behind the protests to the act were Samuel Adams and
James Otis, both of Massachusetts. In August 1764, fifty Boston
merchants agreed to stop purchasing British luxury items, and in both
Boston and New York there were movements to increase colonial
manufacturing. There were sporadic outbreaks of violence, most notably
in Rhode Island.[8] Overall, however, there was not an immediate high
level of protest over the Sugar Act either in New England or the rest
of the colonies. That would begin in the later part of the next year
when the Stamp Act was passed.[9] The Sugar Act was repealed in 1766
and replaced with a further reduced tax of one pence per gallon on all
molasses imports, British or foreign. This occurred around the same
time that the Stamp Act was repealed. 
 
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Stamp Act: 
 
A stamp act is a law enacted by a government that requires a tax to be
paid on the transfer of certain documents. Those that pay the tax
receive an official stamp on their documents. The tax raised, called
stamp duty, was first devised in the Netherlands in 1624 after a
public competition to find a new form of tax. A variety of products
have been covered by stamp acts including playing cards, patent
medicines, cheques, mortgages, contracts and newspapers. The items
often have to be physically stamped at approved government offices
following payment of the duty, although methods involving annual
payment of a fixed sum or purchase of adhesive stamps are more
practical and common. 
 
Stamp acts were enforced in many countries, including Australia,
People's Republic of China, Canada, Ireland, Malaysia, Israel, the
United Kingdom and the United States of America. 
 
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamp_act"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamp_act</a>
 
 
Townshend Act: 
 
The Townshend Acts (1767) passed by Parliament on June 29, 1767 refer
to two Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain passed in 1767, which
were proposed by Charles Townshend . These laws placed a tax on common
products imported into the American Colonies, such as lead, paper,
paint, glass, and tea. It also granted certain duties in the British
Colonies. In contrast to the Stamp Act of 1765, the laws were not a
direct tax, but a tax on imports. The Townshend Acts also created
three new admiralty courts to try Americans. This taxation was a
result of the cost of the Seven Years War. It was felt that since the
outcome of the war benefitted the colonies, it was only proper that
they bear a small portion of the financial burden. 
 
The Writs of Assistance gave tax collectors permission to search for
smuggled goods. Often, these smuggled goods were sold in England and
in the European countryside. Therefore creating more income for the
British. The Acts led to outrage among the colonists and helped spark
the Liberty seizure and riots of 1768. The colonists' opposition to
these acts was well stated in the phrase "No taxation without
representation", originally spoken by James Otis. Smugglers avoided
the taxes by importing illegal goods and by organizing a boycott of
the legitimate imports. Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty of Boston
were notable supporters of this boycott. Economic pressure from the
boycott caused several entities in Britain to press for repeal.
Eventually, John Dickinson raised support to repeal the Revenue Acts
by a series of 12 essays entitled "Letters from a Farmer in
Pennsylvania", addressing himself as "A Farmer". As of March 5, 1770,
the same day as the Boston Massacre, the only act remaining was the
tax on tea. The women of the colonies also contributed. They wove
their own cloth and yarn, and helped in the boycott of British goods,
and formed the Daughters of Liberty. The colonists were very outraged
at this act, as John Hancock and other smugglers were negatively
affected. 
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townshend_Act 
 
Tea Act: 
 
The Tea Act was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain (13 Geo III
c. 44, long title An act to allow a drawback of the duties of customs
on the exportation of tea to any of his Majesty's colonies or
plantations in America; to increase the deposit on bohea tea to be
sold at the India Company's sales; and to empower the commissioners of
the treasury to grant licences to the East India Company to export tea
duty-free.), passed on May 10th, 1773. 
 
Previously, the East India Company had been required to sell its tea
exclusively in London on which it paid a duty which averaged two
schillings and six pence per pound.[1] Because of these duties the
American market was almost entirely in the hand of smugglers. The East
India company would now be allowed to export its tea directly to the
colonies without paying the taxes it was paying in London "to export
such tea to any of the British colonies or plantations in America, or
to foreign parts, discharged from the payment of any customs or duties
whatsoever", and instead only have to pay the Townshend import duty of
three pence a pound.[2] 
 
This Act was intended to aid the company's finances, which were close
to collapse because it was paying the British government £400,000
pounds per year, war and famine in India and economic weakness in
European markets. Benjamin Franklin proposed to the British government
the idea of eliminating the tax on tea as a way to help the East India
company.[3] Britain expected the colonists to be happy to be paying
less for their tea. Before this Act, smugglers imported 900,000 tons
of cheap foreign tea a year. The quality of the smuggled tea did not
match the quality of the dutiable East Indian Tea of which the
Americans bought 562,000 tons per year.[4] The British government
intended to give the East India Company an effective monopoly on tea
imports to the Thirteen Colonies.[citation needed] The colonists knew
the British wanted to coerce them from boycotting British goods, which
hurt their economy.[citation needed] As a result, many just simply
bought the tea. 
 
Some colonists deemed the tea "unfavorable". Although the British tea
was more appealing in taste, some Patriots began to drink tea produced
in the colonies. This did not, however, achieve its expected result of
damaging the British tea trade. 
 
The East India Trading Company was a favored monopoly with a lobby in
Parliament. Ultimately, this act led to widespread boycotts of tea
throughout the colonies, and, eventually, to the Boston Tea Party
where American colonists, believed to be the Sons of Liberty, dressed
up like Native Americans and threw 342 crates of tea from the East
India Company ships Dartmouth, the Eleanor, and the Beaver into Boston
Harbor. In Britain, even those politicians considered friends of the
colonies were appalled and this act united all parties there against
the colonies. This act, and the retaliatory measures taken by the
British government afterwards, united the colonies even more in their
frustrations against Britain, and was one of the many causes of the
American Revolution. The tax on the tea was a penny, while the average
wage in New England was between one and two schillings per day. After
the Boston tea party, Britain decided to close down the Boston Harbor
until the tea was further paid for. 
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Act 
 
Intolerable Acts: 
 
The Intolerable Acts or the Coercive Acts were names given by
colonists in the Thirteen Colonies to a series of laws passed by the
British Parliament in 1774. The acts were met with outrage and
resistance in the colonies and were important developments in the
growth of the American Revolution. 
 
Four of the five acts were issued in direct response to the Boston Tea
Party of December 1773. Lord North said "The Americans have tarred and
feathered your subjects, plundered your merchants, burnt your ships,
denied all obedience to your laws and authority; yet so clement and so
long forbearing has our conduct been that it is incumbent on us now to
take a different course. Whatever may be the consequences, we must
risk something; if we do not, all is over"[1]. The British government
hoped these punitive measures would, by making an example of
Massachusetts, reverse the trend of colonial resistance to
parliamentary authority that had begun with the 1765 Stamp Act. 
 
Many colonists viewed the acts as an arbitrary violation of their
constitutional rights, and organized the First Continental Congress to
coordinate their response. 
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intolerable_acts 
 
Effects: 
 
Great Britain hoped that the Intolerable Acts would isolate radicals
in Massachusetts and cause American colonists to concede the authority
of Parliament over their elected assemblies. It was a calculated risk
that backfired, however, because the harshness of some of the acts
made it difficult for moderates in the colonies to speak in favor of
Parliament. The acts unintentionally promoted sympathy for
Massachusetts and encouraged colonists from the otherwise diverse
colonies to form the First Continental Congress. The Continental
Congress created the Continental Association, an agreement to boycott
British goods and, if that did not get the Intolerable Acts reversed
after a year, to stop exporting goods to Great Britain as well. The
Congress also pledged to support Massachusetts in case of attack,
which meant that all of the colonies would become involved when the
American Revolutionary War began at Lexington and Concord. 
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intolerable_acts#Effects

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