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The Proclamation of 1763 declared that all land transactions made to the west of the Appalachian would be governed by the British government.
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The Sugar Act mandated that many commodities shipped from the colonies had to pass through Britain before going to other European countries.
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The Stamp Act required all colonists to purchase taxed paper for use in newspapers and legal documents.
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The Quartering Act required colonial legislatures to pay for certain supplies for British troops stationed in the colonies.
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The Virginia Resolves denied Parliament's right to tax the colonies under the Stamp Act.
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The colonial legislatures sent representatives to New York, where they agreed that Parliament had no right to tax the colonies.
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In response to colonial resistance, Parliament repealed the Stamp Act.
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The Townshend duties was the popular name for the collected import taxes imposed by the Revenue Act of 1767.
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Dickinson's series of twelve letters are published in almost every colonial newspaper.
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A letter, drafted by Samuel Adams, that was sent to all of the other colonial legislatures, condemned taxation without representation.
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In response to growing political unrest in Massachusetts, Britain sent troops to occupy the city.
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Troops in Boston squared off with a crowd. When the crowd knocked one soldier to the ground, the soldiers fired and killed 5 men.
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Parliament repealed all of the Townshend duties except for the tax on tea.
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The Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson, states the reasons the British colonies of North America sought independence in July of 1776.
