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The Sugar Act taxed sugar and molasses.
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The Stamp Act made the colonists pay a tax on all printed paper or documents.
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The Quartering Act stated the that British troops could be quartered in barracks and if the barracks were full, the could stay in public houses or inns.
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The Stamp Act Congress was a meeting between October 7 and 25, 1765 in New York City, consisting of representatives from some of the British colonies in North America
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The Declaratory Act accompanied and repealed Stamp Act and changed and lessened the Sugar Act.
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The Townshend Act placed a tax on the imports to the colonies including lead, paper, glass, paint, and tea.
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The Boston Massacre was when the British fired weapons and killed Colonists.
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The Boston Tea Party was when the Colonists boarded British ships and threw their tea overboard into the harbor.
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The British passed the Tea Act to make the Colonists pay for the tea that was thrown overboard.
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The Intolerable Acts were passed to punish the Colonists for the Boston Tea Party.
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It lasted from September 5 to October 26 1774 and was a meeting between 12 delagates of the thirteen colonies in Philadelphia, early in the Revolution.
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The Second Continental Congress was a meeting between delegates of the thirteen colonies in Philadelphia, and soon after, the American Revolutionary War had begun.
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The Battle of Lexington was the start of the Reevolutionary war. They were the first shots of the war. The British leader told the troops to disarm the colonists.
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The Battle of Concord followed the Battle of Lexington. The militia were warned of the British coming by the messenger, Paul Revere. The colonists fought and the British retreated
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The Declaration of Independence was written by the Colonists to state American freedom rights.
