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The Sugar Act of 1764 was a revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on April 5, 1764.
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The Currency Act of 1764 forbid the colonies from using any future bills for payment of all public and private debts.
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The Stamp Act required colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards.
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The Quartering Act of 1765 required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies.
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The Declaratory Act stated that Parliament could make laws binding the American colonies "in all cases whatsoever."
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The Townshend Acts were a series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies in 1767. They placed new taxes and took away some freedoms from the colonists including the following: new taxes on imports of paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea.
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The Boston Massacre was a confrontation in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston.
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The Committees of Correspondence were shadow governments organzied by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of the American Revolution.
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The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773. The target was the Tea Act.
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The Coercive Acts of 1774, known as the Intolerable Acts in the American colonies, were a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party.
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Delegates from each of the 13 colonies, except for Georgia, met in Philadelphia as the First Continental Congress to organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts.
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The Proclamation of 1763 was issued by King George III on October 7, 1763. It followed the Treaty of Paris, which formally ended the Seven Years' War and transferred French territory in North America to Great Britian.
