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Sugar Act
First law passed by the British Parliament for the purpose of raising tax revenue from the American colonies. This was due to the debt the British empire had accumulated during the French and Indian War. However, the Sugar Act increased duty on sugar imported from the West Indies and angered colonist for a time, but protests died down soon after. -
Quartering Act
Act stating you must provide food and housing to British soldiers if needed. This was caused by the resentment from Prime Minister George Grenville towards the American colonies. This caused colonists to become angry. -
Stamp Act
Tax imposed by Prime Minister George Grenville, to raise funding for new military force. All official papers, documents, newspapers, ECT. were required to bare a stamp to certify payment of tax. This tax was imposed to help fund the military force needed to control and protect the new lands gained by the British at the end of the French and Indian War. However, the colonists not only saw this as them being robed, but their liberties being tested. -
Non-importation Agreement
An agreement among colonists to boycott British goods. This agreement emerged from the hatred toward the Stamp Act, and as a result, the British tax collection system broke down. -
Sons and Daughters of Liberty
Enforcers of the Non-importation Agreement, who commonly tarred and feathered violators, such as, unpopular officials. Theses groups of men and women came with the boycotting of British goods, and they, with their actions fueled the resistance of British goods. -
Declaratory Act
Great Britain's official statement on standing its ground and not yielding its control over the colonies. This statement came from the boycotting of British goods by colonists and this furthered in raged the colonists. -
Boston Massacre
60 Bostonians provoked a group of ten Redcoats after the death of a 11-year-old boy who was protesting a merchant for selling British goods. The Redcoats eventually opened fire on the group of protesters and wounded or killed 11 people. -
Boston Tea Party
100 Bostonians disguised as Indians smashed 342 crates of tea and dumped it into the Atlantic ocean out of protest of British goods. Great Britian reacted by beginning to whip the upstart in the colonists into shape. -
First Continental Congress
One of the biggest responses to the "Intolerable Acts." This meeting was to readdress the colonists grievances. All but one of the colonies, Georgia, together sent 55 delegates to met in Philadelphia. They together wrote appeals to the king of England and the British people and wrote up a Declaration of Rights. -
Lexington and Concord
First shots of rebellion between British troops and Colonial militiamen. This marked the beginning of the Revolutionary war. It started with British forces wanting to take stores of colonial gunpowder and capture Samuel Adams and John Hancock. This would be the start of war.