Pre-Revolutionary

By Mooo110

  • Plroclimation

    Laws about the land gained after the French and Indian War

  • The Sugar Act

    Grenville lowered a previous tax on sugar to lower smuggling

  • The Stamp Act

    All items named in the law had to carry a stamp showing you payed.

  • The Quartering Act

    Colonists had to house and take care of the british soldiers.

  • The Townshend Act

    Taxed goods such as glass, paper, paint, lead and tea.

  • Boston Massacre

    Colonists were yelling insults and throwing snowballs which in turn caused soldiers to shoot.

  • The Tea Act

    A law that continued the tax on tea.

  • Boston Tea Party

    Colonists disguised as native americans threw 342 chests of tea into the ocean.

  • The Intolerable Acts

    This act punished Massachusetts for the boston tea party.

  • The First Continental Congress

    The congress was a meeting with one representative from 12 colonies.

  • Lexington & Concord

    Soldiers arrived in boston and as colonists were walking away a shot was fired.