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The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that took place on December 16, 1773, in Boston, Massachusetts, where members of the Sons of Liberty, a revolutionary group, destroyed a shipment of tea belonging to the British East India Company. -
The Boston Massacre was a deadly confrontation on March 5, 1770, in Boston, Massachusetts, where British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists, killing five people and wounding others. Tensions had been growing between colonists and British troops, who were stationed in Boston to enforce Parliament's unpopular taxes, particularly the Townshend Acts. The event fueled anti-British sentiment and became a rallying point for the American revolutionary cause. -
The Townshend Acts were a 1767 series of British parliamentary acts named after Charles Townshend, imposing taxes and duties on goods like glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea to pay for colonial administration and recoup war debt -
The Stamp Act was a 1765 British tax on the American colonies requiring a tax stamp on legal documents, newspapers, playing cards, and other paper goods to help pay for British troops after the French and Indian War -
aka 7 Years War between France and England. In the colonies, it was called the French Indian War because the colonists fought with British soldiers against France the Indians who were on side of France. Because of the war, England had a massive war debt began to tax the people in the 13 colonies. -
The term "Quartering Act" generally refers to one of two British laws passed in the 1760s and 1770s that required American colonists to provide housing, food, and supplies for British soldiers. While the 1765 act did not force soldiers into private homes