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The Sugar Act was passed and it lowered taxes on molasses
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The Stamp Act was passed and it placed a tax on basically everything that was a printed material
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The Stamp Act is finally repealed or canceled
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Fights started to break out between the Bostonians and the British soldiers in the city.
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The British East India Company faced ruin so the Paraliamwnt decided to pass the Tea Act on May 10th 1773. Later that year however the East Indiana Company shipped Tea to colonial cities. Three ships arrived in Boston and they stayed there. On December 16th later that year a group of men disguised themselves as Mohawks who boarded the ships at midnight and threw 342 chests of Tea overboard.
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This Act was passed to punish the colonists in Massachuesetts and people part of The Boston Party for their resistance to British Law.
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The First Continental Congress was where the twelve delegates that were from each of the thirteen colonies held a meeting
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Dr. Joseph Warren noticed a regiment from ranks in Boston Common march out of the city and after he saw that he told the members of the Son of Liberty about what he saw.
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The Second Continental Congress assembled for the first time they talked about war and how to become independent
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1,200 militiamen set up fortifications at Bunker Hill and they neared Breed's Hill which was across the harbor from Boston.
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Thomas Paine published the pamphlet which was called Common Sense
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The formal statement that was written by Thomas Jefferson declaring freedom of the colonies from Great Britain was fully approved on July 4th that year
