Given here are four sentences. The first sentence is in the correct order, while the rest of the sentences are jumbled. Pick the option that gives the correct order.

A. Like the Sugar Act (1764), the Stamp Act was imposed to provide increased revenues to meet the costs of defending the enlarged British Empire. 

B. the stamps as well as by riots, stamp burning, and intimidation of colonial stamp distributors.

C. Enraged colonists nullified the Stamp Act through outright refusal to use 

D. It was the first British parliamentary attempt to raise revenue through direct taxation on a wide variety of colonial transactions, including legal writs, newspaper advertisements, and ships’ bills of lading.