What were the British trying to do with creation of these acts?

Navigation Acts

- Encourage trade between Britain and its colonies

- Increase British tax revenue

- Reduce trade between the colonies and other countries

Stamp Act

- Raise revenue for the British government in the colonies

- Assert Parliament's authority over the colonies

Townshend Acts

- Increase revenue for the British government in the colonies

- Punish the colonies for protesting the Stamp Act

Tea Act

- Give the British East India Company a monopoly on the sale of tea in the colonies

- Increase British tax revenue

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