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Currency Act
regulated paper money issued by the colonies of British America. The Acts sought to protect British merchants and creditors from being paid in depreciated colonial currency. -
Sugar Act
modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act (1733), which was about to expire. Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses. -
Stamp Act
British parliamentary attempt to raise revenue through direct taxation of all colonial commercial and legal papers -
Townsend Acts
imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
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Tea Act
granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies -
Boston Tea Party
political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773. The demonstrators, some disguised as Native Americans, in defiance of the Tea Act of May 10, 1773, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company. -
Intolerable Acts
harsh laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774. They were meant to punish the American colonists for the Boston Tea Party and other protests -
Quartering Act
name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations and housing. It also required colonists to provide food for any British soldiers in the area. -
1st Continental Congress meets
meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies who met from September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania early in the American Revolution. -
Lexington and Concord
Americans defeated the British at Concord. British won at Lexington -
The Siege of Boston
opening phase of the American Revolutionary War. New England militiamen prevented the movement by land of the British Army garrisoned in what was then the peninsular city of Boston, Massachusetts. -
Battle of Fort Ticonderoga
Ticonderoga and Crown Point captured by New England militia -
2nd Continental Congress Meets
managed the Colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.