Act/event
british parliament's p. o.v.
sugar act (1765): britain had just finished fighting a
this british law put a war, and wars are expensive.
tax (called a parliament needed money to
"duty") on sugar pay its soldiers, rebuild towns,
coming from other and run colonial governments.
countries, it also britain fought the french and
more strongly indian war to protect and
enforced the the american colonies, so
navigation acts to parliament believed the
stop smuggling american people should by
paying britain back.
who was right? justify your answer
american colonists' p. o.v.
americans were angry that the
british government suddenly
began to enforce the
navigation acts (which were not
enforced before). they also did
not like paying more money for
sugar. many colonists continued
to smuggle sugar into the
colonies.
stamp act (1765): this was another tax to the colonists were very angry
this law made britain pay for the french and about following a tax law that
colonists pay a tax indian war. it was also the first they did not make. they
on special stamped tax on goods bought and sold protested the tax in two ways.
paper (licenses, inside the colonies (other taxes many colonists became violent.
documents, and were on goods that the colonies groups of anti-british men (the
playing cards) traded with other countries). sons of liberty) and anti-british
women (the daughters of
liberty) took british tax collectors,
covered them with hot, black
tar, and then covered them with
feathers ("tar and feathering").
other colonists boycotted paper
goods. "to boycott" means to
stamp
not buy something because you
believe it is wrong to buy it. so
many colonists boycotted paper
tar and feathering
that britain began to lose money
because of the law. parliament
later repealed (officially ended)
the stomp act.
inníol response was more effective against the stamp ac-boycotting, or tar