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The colonies are required to pay a six pence per gallon of forge in molasses. The colonists are upset and protest against it but are ultimately able to evade this tax through smuggling. FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR PICTURE -
Britain and France fight for land and control over the North American continent with the Native Americans fighting with the British. The British win and continue to expand West while imposing new taxes on the colonists to pay for the war, this causes friction and tension between Britain and the colonies.
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Parliament rewrites the Molasses act from 6 pence to 3 and includes similar foreign goods like sugar. This crushed the colonies economy by cutting off their ability to trade and earn money. -
Parliament passes the Stamp Act, taxing all paper items. The colonists are angry and begin to riot and mob, saying only their own representatives can tax them like this. -
Parliament declares that they have the same powers in the colonies as they do in Britain and suspend the New York Assembly. The colonists fear for the political independence they have established. -
Parliament releases a string of new taxes on imported goods and sends troops to enforce the new laws, because the colonists were living in a better quality of life due to the great debts of Britain. As the colonies had no representation in parliament they felt they were being taxed unfairly. -
The Townshend Acts are repealed due to violent riots and boycotts on everything except for tea; this was so Parliament could prove their power over the colonies and to have the colonies pay to get the country out of debt. The colonists rebel and dump pounds of tea into the ocean. This was the final straw for the colonists. -
Anticipating a rebellion, British General Thomas Gage gathers troops to invade Concord, MA, and confiscate weapons and gun powder. Paul Revere is able to warn to colonists and the British arrive to find the colonists armed and defensive, a battle breaks out and the colonists spend victorious beginning the American Revolution.