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People started thinking with reason, steering away from faith.
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War between the French and the english with the native americans supporting the French. English used the colonists as cannon fodder.
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Prohibited settlement in the area west of the Appalachians.
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Tax placed on sugars. The British hoped that the act would force colonists to sell their goods to Britain instead of selling them to other countries.
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The Stamp Act was passed in order to pay off the debt from the 7 years war. It taxed nearly all paper goods including things like playing cards and mortgages. This was the first direct tax on the colonists.
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Taxed glass, lead, paper, tea, and paint.
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A crowd of about sixty townspeople antagonized a squad of ten redcoats. They redcoats open fired and harmed 11 people.
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Sam adams and the sons of liberty dumped tea into the boston harbor to protest the tax.
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A lot of acts passed by Parliament designed to chastise Massachuestts, but Boston more specifically. Closed Boston harbor.
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Colonists and English troops fight.
