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A law placing an act on sugar, molasses, and other products. Coffee Act is an act of Parliament of the Parliament of Great Britain concerning the adulteration of coffee.
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Commercial documents to carry an official stamp showing that the tax had been paid on the goods. England started this act to pay of debt from the French and Indian War. The colonist began to boycott and started a secret society known as the Sons of Liberty.
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All colonies had to house all british soldiers and British soldiers were targeted. The Boston Massacre was when British troops killed American colonists.
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Was an attempt for colonist to express their feeling about the Stamps Acts.
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Allowing parliament supreme authority to govern colonies. Also, it caused arguments between parliament and the colonies.
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Placed duties on numerous imports. The colonist refused to pay and a new secret society was formed known as the Daughters of Liberty.
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When the British soldiers arrived in Boston, tensions erupted into violence. The people of Boston was outraged at what came to be known as the Boston Massacre.
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British government granted the company a monopoly on the importation and and sale of tea in the colonies.
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A political protest conducted by the Sons of Liberty in protest of the Tea Act of May 10, 1773.
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Set of laws to punish Massachusetts and clamp down on resistance in the other colonies
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A meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies at Carpenter’s Hall in Philadelphia early in the American Revolution.
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America’s government during the Revolutionary War. The meeting was in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia.
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One of the first battles of the revolutionary war. This battle was fought in the village of Lexington, a province of Massachuet Bay
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Another first battle of the revolutionary war. This battle was fought in a village named Concord a few miles northwest of Boston.
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A statement announcing that the thirteen colonies were free of Great Britain and were independent.
