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Sugar Act
British legislation targeted to reach the end of smuggling trade that included sugar and molasses . This act provided strong customs enforcement of the duties on refined sugar and molasses imported into the colonies from non british caribbean sources. -
Boston Massacre
It contributed to the unpopularity of the British regime in America in the years before the American Revolution. The event was the peak of a series of fights in which local workers and sailors clashed with british soldiers quartered in Boston. It was the most important event leading up to the revolution because it was one of the first times the colonists used propaganda against the British to persuade others to fight for independence. -
Boston Tea Party
Chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown into Boston harbor by the Americans patriots disguised as Mohawk indians, the Americans were protesting both a tax on tea and the perceived monopoly of the East India Company -
Intolerable Acts
Represented an attempt to reimpose strict british control over the american colonies, 1 law shut down the boston harbor, another authorized british commanders to house soldiers in vacant private homes and other buildings. Also, General Thomas Gage was appointed the new governor of Massachusetts. -
Common Sense
50 page pamphlet, written by Thomas Paine, that attacked King George and the monarchy. He argued that responsibility for British tyranny lay with “The royal brute of Britain.” Paine stated that independence would allow America to trade more freely and would give them the chance to create a better society This was the least important event because it was only a little pamphlet that one man wrote and is not what everyone else thinks about independence. -
Stamp Act
First British parliamentary attempt to raise revenue through direct taxation of all colonial commercial and legal papers, newspaper, pamphlets, cards, almanacs, and dice.
