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a series of acts passed in the English parliament. caused resentment in the colonies and were a major contributing factor to the american revolution
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The French and Indian War comprised the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War of
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they prevented colonist srom setteling west west of the mountains,
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tax on molasses, and sugar. they started to smuggle molasses and sugar
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The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed.
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required colonists to provide food for any British soldiers in the area. The first also required them to feed the troops.
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Declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. Meaning, they were in complete authority to make binding laws on the American Colonies.
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The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others
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The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed – beginning in 1767 – by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program.
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Network of communication for passing along news. Rallied colonial opposition against British policy and established a political union among the Thirteen Colonies.
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An act of the parliament of Britain. The Tea Act rekindled their opposition to it.
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Sons of Liberty dump British tea. On this day in 1773, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships moored in Boston Harbor and dump 342 chests of tea into the water. Now known as the “Boston Tea Party,”
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Port is closed several limited town meetings. Started forming molasses.
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A group of people who came together. Looking for unified responses from Britain.
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Managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence
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British troops had moved from Boston toward Lexington and Concord to seize the colonists' military supplies and arrest revolutionaries.
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The battle is named after Bunker Hill in Charlestown, Massachusetts, which was peripherally involved in the battle. They came back with more people and defeated them.
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Advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies.
