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Britain taxed sugar, molasses, and coffee, used to pay off their war debt
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taxed all legal and commercial goods used to pay off England’s war debt
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stated that colonists had to house British troops
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meeting to devise a protest against British taxation
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stated Parliament had supreme authority over the colonies
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taxed imported goods such as paint, glass, paper, lead and tea
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incident in 1770 in which British Troops fired on and killed American colonists
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colonists were forced to only purchase tea from the East India Company, which was owned by Britain
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colonists boarded ships and dumped the tea cargo into the harbor as a protest to England for taxing their tea
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the British closed the port of boston until the colonists paid for the destroyed tea, altered the Massachusetts charter to ban town town meetings, replaced the elected council with an appointed one, increased the governor’s power over the colonists, protected British officials accused of crime from being tried by colonists, and allowed British troops to be housed in private dwellings.
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meeting of delegates who voted to ban trade with Britain until they removed the intolerable acts
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America’s government during the Revolutionary War
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location was chosen because British spies found out John Hancock and Sam Adams were there
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location was chosen because British spies found out that the Massachusetts militia was storing arms and ammunition there
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signing of the document that declared AMerican Independence from Britain
