In 1764, with Britain under a massive debt from the Seven Years War and with increased costs of maintaining its new colonies, the Grenville Ministry passes the Sugar Act to raise revenue from the colonists. The Act itself actually cuts tariff rates, but also institutes enforcement measures to ensure the colonists cannot evade the taxes as easily as they did in the past. Parliament also passes the Quartering Act, to make colonies pay for the quartering of British Regulars within their borders, whether they are there to protect the colonists or to enforce tariff and trade laws.
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ARP187 Evacuation of Philadelphia
ARP186 Carlisle Peace Commission
ARP185 Mount Hope Bay Raids
AR-SP06 David Price John Haslet's World
ARP184 Mischianza and Barren Hill
ARP183 Doan Brothers & Crooked Billet
ARP182 British Occupation of Philadelphia
ARP181 West Point Chain
ARP180 John Paul Jones Raids Whitehaven
AR-SP05 Christian McBurney - George Washington's Nemesis
ARP179 Prisoner Exchanges
ARP178 Hancock's Bridge Massacre
ARP177 Republic of Vermont
ARP176 Sinking the Randolph
AR-SP04 Michael Harris on Germantown
ARP175 Von Steuben at Valley Forge
ARP174 Britain and France go to War
ARP173 Treaties with France
ARP172 Winter at Valley Forge
AR-SP03 James Kirby Martin on the Saratoga Campaign
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