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Also called the Sugar and Molasses Act, colonial merchants were required to pay a tax on the importation of foreign molasses
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The name of several acts of parliament that regulated paper money issued by the American colonies
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Passed by British Parliament. The new tax was imposed to all American colonies and required them to pay a tax on paper
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Required the colonists to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonists
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A declaration by British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act
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Was a series of British acts that were passed and related to the British colonies in North America
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A street fight that occurred between a "patriot" mob and British Soldiers, throwing snowballs with rocks, and sticks3
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Granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies
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An incident in which 342 chests of tea were thrown into the Boston harbor from ships by American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians
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Was designed to punish the inhabitants of Boston, Massachusetts for the incident known as the Boston Tea Party
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Passed by British Parliament to institute a permanent administration in Canada replacing the government created at the time of the proclamation in 1763
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Meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies who met at Carpenters Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania early in the American Revolution
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A political protest lead by women in Edenton North Carolina in response to the Tea Act
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Joseph Warren had told Paul Revere and William Dawns that the kings troops were about to embark in boats in Boston and were bound for Cambridge and the road to Lexington and Concord
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Depiction of the battle of Lexington and Concord and the Siege of Boston. The 1st shots were fired just after dawn in Lexington.
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Was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine advocating independence from Great Britain to all the colonists in all of the 13 colonies
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The statement that was adopted by the 2nd Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House which announced the 13 American Colonies regarded themselves as independent states, no longer under British rule
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Managed the Colonial War effort and moved towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence
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A written document that established the functions of National Government of the U.S. after it declared independence from Great Britain
