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After Grenville came up with his idea of reinforcing the already existing taxation law, the parliament took his words into consideration and turned their eyes to some other laws that needed to be placed again.Still in 1764, the Sugar Act was one of the first laws to be reinforced by the British parliament. This law, as its name states, laid taxes on sugar by lowering duties on molasses, a thick syrup produced during the refining of sugar.
Because Grenville was well aware of how the colonist merchants had been smuggling foreign products by paying the officials that guarded the port trade, he replaced these men for others who would report any out-of-the-ordinary movements done by the colonists in the trading areas. For those merchants who insisted in smuggling 
non-British products, breaking the recently enforced law, awaited jail and severe punishments.
non-British products, breaking the recently enforced law, awaited jail and severe punishments. A year later, during 1765, another unpopular law was reinforced by the parliament, the Quartering Act. If you may remember from my previous post, Britain was sending more soldiers to the new country, well, this law forced the colonists to take the soldiers into their homes and provide them a bed, clothes, food, etc. No property in the colonies was safe from the military invasion.
In the same year, the Massachusetts Government Act put the colony under the power of an appointed governor of the British crown, causing the closure of the elected assembly and town meetings. Colonists were losing the right to govern themselves.
Then, in March 1765, the parliament passed another bill to raise money. This law was called the Stamp Act. This new act forced the colonists to pay taxes on every printed material, all of which had to be stamped by an official. This was the law the parliament imposed the most. 
As it is to be expected, the colonists were anything but happy about what they were being forced to do, and of course, they weren’t going to be quiet about it.
As it is to be expected, the colonists were anything but happy about what they were being forced to do, and of course, they weren’t going to be quiet about it.
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