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Boston Tea Party

By MSO

  • Seven Years War Begins

    1756-1763; causes British Empire to be deep in debt.

  • Stamp Act Passed by British Government

    Taxes American colonists on all printed paper.

  • Stamp Act Repealed

  • Townshend Acts

    Imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into colonies.

  • Townshend Acts Repealed, Except Tax on Tea

    Tea continues to be taxed

  • Tea Act Passed

    Tax on tea lowered to boost British East India Company

  • Boston Tea Party

    Sons of Liberty boarded 3 British ships in Boston Harbor and threw the cargo of tea overboard.

  • Intolerable Acts Passed

    Meant to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party.

  • Shot heard Around the World, Revolution in Full Swing

    British gather in Lexington, shot rings out causing skirmish between British and Colonists.