Plan Passed By Parliament In 1767 To Help Raise Revenue In The Colonies. The Sugar Act, passed by Parliament in. Conflict between colonists and British soldiers in which five colonists were killed.
British Parliament passed the Stamp Act to help replenish their finances after the costly Seven Years' War with France. One act placed taxes on certain goods brought into the colonies. In Massachusetts, participants in a town meeting cried out against taxation without proper representation in Parliament, and suggested some form of united.
Colonial resistance to the act mounted slowly at first, but gained.
African American killed by British soldiers in the Boston Massacre.
The purpose of these taxes was to help pay for troops stationed in North America after the British victory The Sugar Act was passed during a time of economic depression in the colonies. The Act taxed glass, paint, lead, paper, paint, and tea. In colonial opinion, it was just like the Stamp Act in that, though it was said to be an external tax, it was still put into effect solely to raise revenue for the British treasury.