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Law forbidding settlement west of the Appalachians.
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Tax (collected in England) on colonial exports like sugar, molasses, wine and whale fins… also provided harsh punishments for smugglers.
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Tax (collected in America) on legal & commercial documents.
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Required colonies to provide housing and supplies for British troops stationed in America.
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Passed when Parliament repealed the Stamp Act… said Parliament had supreme authority to rule the colonies.
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Indirect taxes on paper, lead, glass, paint and tea.
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A fight which broke out between some British soliders and colonist, which lead to 5 colonists being shot and killed.
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Removed some but not all taxes on tea, making it less expensive for colonists.
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Colonists dressed as Native Americans boarded the ships and threw 342 chests of tea overboard.
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From this date to June 22nd 1774. A series of laws ment to punish colonists for resisting British authority.
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Redcoats approached Lexington where they ran into about 70 minute men waiting for them. Shots were fired between both sides and after the shotting was over, 8 minutemen lay dead. the british kept on marching to Concord.
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Benedict Arnold raised a force of 400 to seize Fort Ticonderoga near Lake Champlain in New York. Arnold also knew that Ethan Allen was planning to attack the fort, so together they suprised the British and forced them to surrender.
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Colonel William Prescott set up posts on Bunker Hill and Breed's Hill, across the harbor from Boston where they open fired forcing the British to retreat.
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The Continential Congress offered Britain a last chance to avoid war. They sent a petition, or formal request, to George III.This petition assured the king that the colonists wanted peace. The king rejected the petition.
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Written by Thomas Jefferson, this document expressed the idea that people are born with certain natural rights to life, liberty, and property.
