THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
BOSTON MASSACRE DECLARATORY TOWNSHEND ACTS
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Home Rule Act
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House of Commons Act
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Colonial Act
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Declaratory Act
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Detailed explanation-1: -Declaratory Act, (1766), declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. It stated that the British Parliament’s taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain. Parliament had directly taxed the colonies for revenue in the Sugar Act (1764) and the Stamp Act (1765).
Detailed explanation-2: -The Declaratory Act, passed by Parliament on the same day the Stamp Act was repealed, stated that Parliament could make laws binding the American colonies “in all cases whatsoever."
Detailed explanation-3: -Parliament then passed the Declaratory Act, which stated its right in principle to tax the colonies as it saw fit.
Detailed explanation-4: -This act was passed to assert the authority of the British government to tax its subjects in North Americ after it repealed the much-hated Stamp Act.