-
“Stamp Act” to help pay for British troops stationed in the colonies during the Seven Years' War.
-
-
seven British soldiers fired into a crowd of volatile Bostonians, killing five, wounding another six, and angering an entire colony.
-
an American political and mercantile protest on December 16, 1773, by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts.
-
a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party.
-
a 47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies.