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A legeslation that made it so everyone had to have a stamp on their documents meaning they paid the taxes for it.
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The colonists began protesting the Stamp Act. Protests began with petitions and led to refusals not to pay the tax.
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The HMS Gaspee was a British Customs schooner that had been enforcing unpopular trade regulations on the colonists. In an act of defiance a group of men led by Abraham Whipple attacked the ship and set it on fire.
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This legislation's purpose was to restore order in Massachusetts, following the Boston Tea Party and other acts of defiance.
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after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor.
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The Quebec Act was setting procedures of governance in the Province of Quebec. This was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain.
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It was called in response to the passage of the Coercive Acts by the British Parliament. The Intolerable Acts had punished Boston for the Boston Tea Party.
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Revere helped arrange the alarm to warn the other states and colonies of when the British were coming. Was part of the group of men who warned everyone and made everyone prepared for the battle.
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Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of The American Revolutionary War. The battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in the mainland of British North America.
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a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies right after the American Revolutionary War had begun.
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1,200 colonial troops under the command of William Prescott occupied Bunker hill so that the British Troops could not take control over them.
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The Continental Congress commissioned him Commander in Chief of the Continental Army.
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The petition made an American loyalty to Great Britain and confirmed that the king to prevent further conflict.
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The response of George the 3rd to the news of The Battle of Bunker Hill.
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Governments organized by patriot leaders of the thirteen colonies right before the American Revolution.
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Common Sense by Thomas Paine challenged the government and monarchy. Spoke of independance for Great Britain.
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When the British decided to retreat out of Boston instead of continuing fighting.
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The Declaration of Independence is the nation's most cherished symbol of liberty and Thomas Jefferson's greatest known monument.
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What Thomas Jefferson did was to summarize this idea in "self-evident truths" and set forth a list of complaints against the King in order to give a good reason for the breaking of ties between the colonies and England.
