The Sugar, Stamp and Quatering Acts

After the french and Indian war with the colonists, the national debt Britain had nearly doubled. This caused the increasing of taxes to the British, which were taxed heavily. The increasing of taxing seem unfair to the british beacause he colonists were not taxed so heavily and they were the ones that were being protected and made Britain lose money. The parliament decided that the colonists should pay more taxes.

George Grenville

 Sugar Act

In 1764 the prime minister of Britain Geroge Grenville  decided to enforce the tax to the colonists, with the sugar act. 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.

                                                                  

Quatering Act

In March of 1765, the government of Grenville, created the law of the quatering act. This act consisted in that each colonial assembly was directed to provide for the basic needs of soldiers stationed within its borders. Specified items included bedding, cooking utensils, firewood, beer or cider and candles. This law was expanded in 1766 and required the assemblies to billet soldiers in taverns and unoccupied houses. The British ministry was also faced with the prospect of taking back the French and Indian war veteran and retirated soldiers, and provide them with pays and pensions. If those soldiers could keep fighting in America then the colonists would need to pay taxes.

                                                                       

     Stamp Act

                                                                          

 In March of 1765, the government had another bill to raise money for the colonists, this was to pay a high price for printing documents like: newspapers, books, court documents, court deeds, land deeds etc. All those documents had a seel and the colonists should pay for it. This are examples of the seels and the documents being charged: