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Prohibited settlement west of the Applachian Mountains; was created to reduce conflict between the Native Americans and the British.
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An act that lowered the taxes on the molasses the colonists imported.
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An act that taxed nearly all printed materials.
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Delegates from nine colonies met in New York at the Stamp Act Congress in order to send a statement saying that only the colonial assemblies could tax the colonists.
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The Stamp Act was repealed.
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An act that stated that the British government still had absolute power over the colonies.
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Taxed imports like glass, tea, and paper before it entered the colonies.
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After British officials sent word that the colonists were on the brink of rebellion, British troops began arriving in Boston.
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After a mob began attcking the British soldiers, they defended themselves and killed five colonists.
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After the British East India Company began to fall, an act that controlled tea and made it less expenisive for the colonists was passed.
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Colonists, dressed as Indians at Midnight, threw 342 chests of tea overboard three ships.
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Acts that were passed to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party (Coercive and Quebec Acts).
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Representitives from twelve out of thirteen colonies met to call a repeal on the acts, and challenge British authority.
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Paul Revere and William Dawes rode to warn the militias that the British were coming; this resulted in the Battle at Concord.
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The Second Continental Congress met, and Ticonderoga surrendered.
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British, although they lost many men, won against William Prescott and his men at Bunker Hill.
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Thomas Paine published his book "Common Sense".
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Washington led his troops into Boston, believeing they were ready to fight, but the soldiers had already sailed away.
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Richard Lee declared that America should be completely free from Britain.
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The Second Continental Congress voted in favor of Independence.
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The Declaration of Independence was approved and 56 delegates signed (John Hancock was the first).
