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Sugar Act
The Sugar Act was an act in 1764 that Parliament passed, the act made it so the tax on the molasses the colonists imported were lowered so the colonists would pay the tax instead of smuggling it. The act also allowed officers to take goods from people who were accused of smuggling without going to court -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was an Act that taxed almost all printed materials. This included Newspaper, wills, and playing cards. They needed stamps to show that the tax was paid for. -
Declaratory Act
The Declaratory Act is an act that makes it so that Parliament can make laws for the colonists in any case whatsoever. -
Townshend Act
The Townshend Act was an act that taxed glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea. This act also allowed searching for smuggled goods. -
Boston Massacre
After one soldier was hit and knocked down, the redcoats got scared and anxious then fires. They killed a group of 5 colonists. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act was an act that gave the company almost total control of the market for tea in the colonies. The tea act also allowed the British East India company (BEIC) to sell tea directly to the colonists. -
Boston Tea Party
Despite the warnings of trouble, the East India Company was still shipping tea to the colonists. The Colonists in New York and Philadelphia made the tea ships turn back. T midnight on December 16, colonists dressed as Native Americans boarded the ships and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. -
Intolerable Act
The Intolerable Act was an act that was passed to punish Boston for the Boston Tea Party, Boston harbor was closed until the tea was paid for, and the Massachusetts charter was canceled. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act was an act that made it so if a soldier came in your house they get your bed and there's nothing you can do about it -
The First Continental Congress
The meeting delegates from 12 of the 13 British Colonies was called The First Continental Congress. The 12 delegates met to deal with the Intolerable Acts. The only colony that didn't send a representative to the Congress was Georgia. If Parliament would not repeal the Intolerable Acts then they agreed to boycott British goods. -
Fort Ticonderoga
Fort Ticonderoga was a place with weapons, and since Washington need weapons. He arranged to have a lot of cannons brought 300 miles from Fort Ticonderoga. -
1,000 Red Coats
General Thomas Gage and his men of British soldiers go to Boston with more coming. Thomas Gage was to take all the weapons from the Massachusetts militia and arrest the leaders. -
Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
The member of Sons of Liberty named Paul Revere goes to warn the Sons of Liberty in Lexington and Concord that the British are coming. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The battle of Lexington was the 1st battle of the American Revolutionary War. The British won.
In the battle of Concord, the Americans stop the British and make them retreat back to Boston. The Americans won -
Second Continental Congress meet
In the Second Continental Congress meet they created a Continental Amy led by George Washington, sent Olive Branch asking the King to protect their rights, set up a post office, and they print money. The King hires 30,000 Hessians Soldiers in response -
Bunker Hill
There was about 20,000 people in the militia around Boston. With the militia always nearby the city they had control of the city. On June 16, 1775 the militia commanded by Colonel William Prescott set up posts on Bunker Hill and Breed's Hill across the harbor from Boston. On the next day, the redcoats grouped up at Breed's Hill. With weapons drawn, they charged, since they were low on ammunition, Prescott ordered them to not fire until you see the whites in their eyes. The Americans shot. -
Washington arrives on outskirts of Boston with Continental troops
Washington realizes the men are disorganized, they need discipline, they needed to be able to follow strict rules and procedures. Washington began to make the militia into soldiers. Washington needs weapons -
"Common Sense" published by Thomas Paine
The pamphlet inspires more colonists to become patriots. "Every thing that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'TIS TIME TO PART" -Thomas Paine, Common Sense -
British Surrender Boston
Washington thinks his army is ready and the weapons have arrived. Washington puts cannons on Dorchester Heights over Boston while the redcoats slept. The British General William Howe commanded his soldiers to get on ships and run from Boston retreat and the Americans win. -
Second Continental Congress meet again
In the Second Continental Congress meet again the debate on declaring independence. Since Thomas Jefferson was a better writer he is the primary author of the document -
Second Continental Congress votes for Independence
In the Second Continental meeting some delegates still thought the colonies should not form a separate nation, but others thought that was had already began and that they should be freed from Great Britain. -
the Declaration of Independence is signed
After Thomas Paine's fight for independence. The Declaration of Independence is signed allowing people to leave Boston. Independence day is celebrated as independence day.