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, the Quartering Act and the Coercive Acts didn't include any tax rate. The Quartering Act (1765) 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 The Coercive Acts, also named Intolerable Acts (1774), 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.
