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Sugar Act
The first law ever passed by that body for raising tax revenue in the colonies for the crown. -
Quartering Act
This measure required certain colonies to provide food and quarters for British troops. -
Stamp Tax
This is published to raise revenues of British government to support new military force.
It required every paper used for publish should use the special and expensive stamp paper, which require them to pay tax on it.
People revolt it strongly, because most of upper class who need to pay for Stamp Act hold together and against it. People also presented that "No taxation without representation." -
Stamp Act Congress
This is the first time colonies have same attitude toward one things. During this assembly, people decided to fight against the British government. It was one more halting but significant step toward intercolonial unity. -
Nonimportation agreements
It is published to against British goods. It were in fact a promising stride toward union, they spontaneously united the American people for the first time in common action. (I think it is a turning point which shows the awareness of "American identity") -
"Liberty, Property, and No Stamps"
A doctrine or concept that was offered by Coups of ardent spirits, known as Sons of Liberty and Daughter of Liberty, who want to took the law into their own hand. The principle of no taxation without representation was important because it is the core thought during this era. -
Repealing of Stamp Act
Under the great pressure of colonists, British government had to repeal the Stamp Act. However, they also pass another which called Declaratory Act. -
Declaratory Act
It is a act which reaffirm Parliament's right "to bind" the colonies "in all cases whatsoever." The British government thereby drew its line in the sand, to defined the constitutional principle it would not yield: absolute and unqualified sovereignty over its North American colonies. -
Townshend Act
It is the most important of these new regulation that published by British government, which regular the light import duty on glass, white lead, paper, paint and tea. Its internal and external taxes, made this tax unlike stamp tax, as is is more indirect. However, it still not solved that "no tax without representation."
It cause the Boston merchants sign a agreement that refuse to import British goods. -
The establishment of committees of correspondence.
Some educated person such as Samuel Adams stand out and set up this committees of correspondence, in order to educate people belong to the low class the awareness of citizen's right and fight against the unfair burdensome restrictions. It is because that the British government tried to send many British man to became the officers and influence people, to increase the approval rating of taxation. -
Boston Massacre
A famous event that called by Boston Massacre. The thing is that, because colonists throw the snow balls toward the British soldiers, they fire to the crowded and lead many people's death. This event created a big stir and conflicts. Colonists began to stand out and blame the British government. The emotion of revolution was created. -
Tea Tax
British government require colonists to pay the tea tax because the legal tea was now cheaper than the smuggled tea, even cheaper than the tea in England, thus they want gain more profits trough it. -
Boston Tea Party
The powerful British East India Company brought 17 million pounds of unsold tea to the Boson port, the angry people throw all of them into the sea to protest the Tea Act. It made the uprising emotion went to the climax and finally light the American Revolution.
To respond the Boston Tea Party, British government shut the legislative assembly of colony and change the charter of Massachusetts. It make colonists want to reform even more strongly. -
Intolerable Acts
This swept many chartered rights of colonial Massachusetts away. The Restriction replaced the town meeting, and it also had some rights to control the American now. -
Quebec Act
It passed at the same time with Intolerable Acts. It was erroneously regarded in English-speaking America as part of the British reaction to the turbulence in Boston. Actually, the Quebec Act was a good law in bad company. -
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First Continental Congress
It was to meet in Philadelphia to consider ways of redressing colonial grievances. Twelve of he thirteen colonies, with Georgia alone missing, sent fifty-five well-respected men. It discussed the revolutionary course, and help defeat by the narrowest of margins a proposal by the moderates for the species of American home rule under British direction. -
Lexington and Concord.
It note the began of American Revolution.
