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Question 0

CURRENCY ACT

Answer 0

• Banned colonies from printing their own money
• Could not make or use colonial currency to pay off taxes or debts
• British viewed colonial currency as unreliable

Question 1

SUGAR ACT

Answer 1

• 1764
• duties or taxes on molasses and sugar imported by colonists
• ignored by colonists
• smuggling

Question 2

COLONISTS ORGANIZE AGAINST STAMP ACT

Answer 2

• Colonists protested Stamp Act immediately
• Sons of Liberty formed
• Violence used to frighten tax collectors
• Many businesses openly ignored law by not buying stamps
• Colonial courts shut down when people refused to buy stamps required for legal documents
• Patrick Henry-VA- House of Burgesses-May 1765- Stamp Act violated rights of colonists as British citizens. Resolutions
• Mass. Legislature called for Stamp Act Congress- Oct. 1765-delegates from nine colonies met in NY.
Issued a declaration stating that Stamp Act violated rights and liberties
Asked Parliament to REPEAL act