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Starting Debt
Debt is at 75 million in Great Britain. -
Debt starts to rise
Debt in Great Britain rises from 75 million to 133 million. -
Quartering act is passed
Americans were forced to house and feed British soldiers in their barns and such. -
Sugar act is passed
Passed as a means to regulate trade with the British west Indies. -
Currency act is passed
Parliament says that there will be no new paper money in America. -
Stamp Act is passed
Anything printed on paper has to have a revenue stamp. -
The Declaration of Rights and Grievances
Colonists start to be more vocal about problems with taxation without representation. Leading them to write the Declaration of Rights and Grievances. -
Boycotting begins with Sons and Daughters of Liberty
British goods start being boycotted, daughters of liberty hold spinning bees in order to spin new fabric to make clothes instead of buying clothing from Great Britain. -
Stamp Act is repealed
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Declaratory Act
States that parliament makes and enforces the rules. Any laws or systems of justice made by the colonists are null and void. -
Townshend Revenue Act is passed
Tax on consumer items such as paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea. -
Commissions of Customs Act is passed
An attempt to stop smuggling in the colonies mainly the Boston Harbor. -
4000 troops send to America
One in Boston, Philadelphia, and Charleston. -
Townshend Acts repealed
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Boston Massacre
British soldiers and colonists get into argument, British soldiers shoot into the crowd and kill 5 people. -
Tea Act gets passed
The India tea company of Great Britain no longer has to pay export fees. -
Boston Tea Party
Sons of liberty throw tea into the Boston Harbor as an act of rebellion. -
Sullfolk Resolves
The colonists come together to make a plan of rebellion to the intolerable acts, or the coercive acts as they were called in Britain. -
Coercive Acts are passed
Boston Harbor is shut down until the tea that was thrown into the harbor is paid for. -
Declaration and resolves
Declares independence from Great Britain. -
Restraining act is passed
Disband NY assembly until they paid for Garrison's supplies.