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The Sugar Act put a three-cent tax on foreign refined sugar and increased taxes. Taxes were raised without the consent of the colonists.
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The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament. The new tax required all American Colonists to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper. The money that was collected was to be used to help pay the cost of protection the American frontier.
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It was a meeting that consisted of representaties from some of ther British colonies in North America. This was the first gathering of elected representatves to devise a unified protest against the new taxation.
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A group of men from Boston and New York who worked together to help stop the British from taxing the American Colonists.
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The group of women supported the boycott of tea and cloth produced in England. They wanted American colonists to support the American businesses and to produce their own products.
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Parliment voted to repel, or take back, the Stamp Act.
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The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars.
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The Tea Act was passed by the Parliament. It made it to where American Colonists counld only buy tea from the East India Company.
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Massachusetts Patriots were protesting on the monopoly on the Tea Act. The Patriots seized 342 chests of tea and dumped them into the ocean.
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This was the first military interaction of the American Revolutioary War.
