C) The Quartering Act and the Coercive Acts.
All three mentioned laws: The Sugar, Stamp and Townshend Acts were legislatures enacted by the British government and directed to the American colonies, that included a new tax rate:
- The Stamp Act (1765) required American colonists to pay a tax on every printed paper they used (legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, playing cards, etc).
- The Sugar Act (1764), imposed the rate of tax on molasses to three pence per gallon and took measures to strictly enforce the law. It also put a tax on other foreign goods such as sugar, certain wines, coffee, pimiento, cambric, and printed calico, and further, regulated the export of lumber and iron.
- The Townshend Acts (1767) were a series of measures that taxed goods imported to the American colonies.
Unlike those acts<u>, the Quartering Act and the Coercive Acts didn't include any tax rate. The Quartering Act (1765)</u> was a statute requiring American colonial authorities to provide food, drink, quarters, fuel, and transportation to British forces stationed in their towns or villages. As for <u>The Coercive Acts, also named Intolerable Acts (1774)</u>, were four punitive laws to restore order in Massachusetts and punish Bostonians for their "Tea Party", which was a political protest from American colonist that occurred on December, 1773.
