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Illegal goods brought into the colonies without being taxed?
smuggled
Why do you think England taxed goods imported from or exported to other countries?
England felt they needed to control the colonies. They thought of the thirteen original colonies as an extention of themselves, and just a way to make more money. Thus, they taxed all imported/exported goods. This was one of the factors that triggered the Revlutionary War.
What law passed by Parliament in 1767 taxed many goods brought into the colonies from Britain?
townshend act
The sugar act and stamp act are examples of what?
Excessive taxation by the British for the goods imported by Americans; the taxation acts got progressively more excessive after the Sugar and Stamp Acts, resulting in what Americans called "The Intolerable Acts", which further taxed paper goods, certain kinds of cloth, and well, we got sick of it.
Which goods shipped to the colonies were taxed by the Townshend Acts?
tea
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