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Sugar Act - 1st Continental Congress
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Sugar Act
The Sugar Act was passed by the British Parliment to the American Colonies, and reduced the tax of mollasses three pence per gallon. Foreign goods were taxed like sugr, wine, coffee, pimiento, cambric, calico, and regulated the imports and exports of lumber and iron. The Sugar Act also caused a decline in the rum industry. -
Sons of Liberty
The Sons of Liberty was a group of American patriots that wanted to rebel and protect againts the unfair authority over the colonies. They took part in the Boston Tea Party, a short rebellion againts the Tea Act, and was hevaily punished by the Intolerable Acts shortly after. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was forced on all American colonists and made them pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and playing cards were taxed. The money made by the Stamp Act was supposed to be used to help pay the costs of defending and protecting the American territory near the Appalachian Mountains. -
Townshend Acts
June 15 1767 - July 2, 1767 a set of four acts were established in the colonies known as the Townshend Acts, named the acts after Charles Townshend, who sponsored the colonists. They put customs duties on imports of glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea, to obtain revenue from the colonies. The Boston Massacre cause some of these acts to be reformed in the future, but the the custo duties on tea remained longer. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston massacre was the killing of Five American Colonists by British Troops sent in tot he colony. The British Troops were not favored by the colonists, and on March 5, 1770, a group of around 50 "patriot" rebels harassed a group of troops. When more troops were called in, the riot escalated and three citizens were killed and two injured to the point of death. -
Commitee of Correspondance
The Committee of Correspondance was the very first system for each colony to maintain communication with eachother. Boston formed the first committee for communition, and then New York. Nine colonies sent representatives but no permanent structure had been fully established. Withing a year, more than half of province's 260 towns made committees and replied and communication. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act's purpose was really to redeem the failing East India Company, which was a very important asset to the British economy. The British government gave the company a monopoly on the importation and sale of tea in the colonies. The colonies never agreed or accepted the act, and foreshadowed the upcoming Boston Tea Party. -
Boston Tea Party
On December 16 1773, groups of andry fed up colonist dressed up as Native Americans, and destroyed 342 barrels of tea by throwig them into the boston harbor in proest againts the Tea Act. They believed the Tea Act violated their rights as Englishmen to, "No Taxation Without Representation." Starting this rebellion that is so often reffered to in American history. -
1st Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. This Congress was held in response to the Intolerable Acts for punishing Boston. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts was the name for a series of laws by the British Parliament in 1774 given to Massachusetts as a reaction to the Boston Tea Party. The Intolerable Acts started an outrage in the colonies, as they took away the right to self govern, one of the reasons they moved and established these colonies in the first place.
