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In order to recoup some of the losses Britain incurred defending its American colonies, Parliament decided for the first time to tax the colonists directly -
The Stamp Act was a tax on paper -
Parliament initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea -
British sentries guarding the Boston Customs House shot into a crowd of civilians, killing three men and injuring eight, two of them mortally. -
Colonists dumping crates of tea into Boston Harbor. The Boston Tea Party is known as a central event in the American Revolution. But, it was simply the culmination of a series of events which led the thirteen American colonies closer to independence. -
The Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act, and the Quartering Act. -
The complaint was about troops being quartered in towns at the expense of colonists. -
The famous 'shot heard 'round the world', marked the start of the American War of Independence -
To plan further responses if the British government did not repeal or modify the acts -
A 47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. -
God made all men equal and gave them the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, states the principles on which our government, and our identity as Americans, are based