The Taxation Issue and other Oppressive Acts– Organizer (Handout)
One of the key issues leading up to the American Revolution had to do with the taxes American colonists
paid to the government across the sea in England. The English felt that the colonists should pay taxes
because the English government was providing services that the colonists would otherwise have had to do
without. The Americans felt the taxes were unfair because they were being imposed by a government in
which the colonists had no "voice."
Taxation Description
Issue/Act
Sugar Act,
1764
Currency
Act, 1764
Quartering
Act, 1765
Stamp Act,
1765
Declaratory
Act, 1766
Townshend
Acts, 1767
Tea Act,
1773
Coercive
Acts, 1774