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What was the first act that the Parliament passed in an attempt to raise revenue by taxing the American colonists?

The Quartering Act: obligated colonial legislations to meet the needs of British soldiers stationed in that colony

The Stamp Act: mandated that colonists affix stamps to certain legal and commercial documents

The Declaratory Act: stated that the Parliament had the absolute right to impose taxes on the colonists

The Revenue Act: taxed goods such as paper and paint that the colonies imported from Britain

The Sugar Act: increased the duties on sugar imported from the West Indies

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The correct answer is the Sugar Act: increased the duties on sugar imported from the West Indies

The sugar act was one of the two, the other being the stamp act, that led to the eventual Boston Tea Party incident. Because of that other acts were implemented to punish colonists like the quartering act which led to the war and the declaration of independence.

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The Sugar Act

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