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Molasses and Sugar act
The molasses and sugar act was when Great Britain imposed a tax on sugar and molasses. Molasses that was imported from non-English colonies would cost 6 pence per gallon. -
Proclamation of 1763
This was issued by Great Britain after the French and Indian War which cut off all of the the lands west of the Appalachia Divide was cut off from the colonies, This took farming land and trade away from the colonists. -
Currency Act
The British government passed an act that forced the 13 colonies to use there form of currency, the British pound. The colonists couldn't make there own money anymore. -
Stamp Act
This act by the British imposed a tax on all of the paper used in the colonies. This included legal documents, newspapers, playing cards, etc. -
Quartering act of 1765
This was introduced so that way the incoming troops could have a place to stay. The troops were forced to stay in barracks and if there was not enough room inside of the barracks, people were forced out of there homes so the troops could be stationed there. -
Boston Massacre
In this event, 5 men were killed during a mob in the streets of boston. They were taunting the British soldiers surrounding the Customs's House. This event is what started the American Revolution -
Boston Tea Party
This event started when 3 shipments of tea came into the Boston Harber and Samuel Adams and the sons of liberty got onto the ships. When they got onto the ships, they threw 342 chests of tea overboard. -
Intolerable Acts
This act was the way that the British punished the Massachusetts colonists for there acts during the Boston Tea Party. These acts took away many of there rights. -
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The First Continental Congress
This was a meeting of 42 delegates from the 12 of the colonies to write a bad letter about the British. They all wanted to join to gether to overrule the British. The only colony that didn't show up was Georgia. This was located in Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
The Battles of Lexington and Concord
These were the first military engagements of the Revolutionary War. The British were supposed to go take all of the Colonies weapons but ran into a open shot war math between the colonists. In Lexington, the militia fell back because they were outnumbered and in Concord, the British Regulars were outnumbered and rejoined in Concord.
