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Taxed printed papers, including legal documents, newspapers, and playing cards.
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British troops in Boston fired on a jeering crowd.
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A group of men, disguised as Native Americans, boarded three tea ships in Boston Harbor. They broke open the chests and dumped the ships cargo into the sea to protest British control of the tea trade.
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so named by the colonists, included closing the port of Boston until colonists paid for the tea dumped during the Boston Tea Party, restricting town meetings in Massachusetts, and allowed for British soldiers to be housed in private homes.
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To discuss the problems of colonial trade and the danger of attacks by the French and their Native American allies.
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A set of laws to punish the colonists for the troubles in Boston and elsewhere.
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The first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
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Started with the Battles of Lexington and Concord.
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The British government continued to refuse to compromise, let alone reverse, its colonial policies.
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A statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress.
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Ended when the thirteen colonies split from the British Empire.
