Taxation in the Colonies is often thought to begin with the Sugar Act or Stamp Act.
While those were some of the more recognized, they were just a couple in a series of taxes that Great Britain imposed on the colonies to help pay for the national debt acquired during the French and Indian War.
Here is a list of taxes in the colonies that they wore on the colonists and led to the creation of such groups as the Sons of Liberty.
- Navigation Acts
- Mutiny Act
- Wool Act
- Debt Recovery Act
- Hat Act
- Iron Act
- Sugar Act
- Currency Act
- Proclamation of 1763
- Declaratory Act
- Stamp Act
- Townshend Acts
- Mercantilism
- Revenue Act
- Indemnity Act
- Commissioners of Customs Act
- Vice-Admiralty Court Act
- New York Restraining Act
- Triangular Trade
- Tea Act
- Intolerable Acts
- Massachusetts Government Act
- Boston Port Act
- Administration Justice Act
- Quartering Acts
- Quebec Act