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The English forced trade with the colonies. Selling of raw materials and finished goods could only be done between the Colonies and England -
The Parliament said that only goods were allowed to be delivered to England. -
When Britain received the imports, they exported them in bigger values -
The Britain taxed the Molasses -
A 9-year war with the French, Natives, and Britain in the New World. -
Prevent smuggling sugar and trades -
Forced the colonies to pay taxes that was stamped -
To help pay the expenses involved in governing the American colonies, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, which initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. Nonimportation. In response to new taxes, the colonies again decided to discourage the purchase of British imports. -
Stated that Great Britain would house its soldiers in American barracks and public houses. -
A series of four laws were passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. -
Act of the British Parliament in 1774 that vested the government of Quebec in a governor and council and preserved the French Civil Code, the seigneurial system of land tenure, and the Roman Catholic Church. -
Thomas Gage, a decorated war hero in the French and Indian War, served as the commander in chief of the British Forces in North America from 1763-74. -
Convened in Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, between September 5 and October 26, 1774. -
A surprise attack by the Green Mountain Boys under Ethan Allen, assisted by Benedict Arnold. -
Signaled the start of the American Revolutionary War -
Historic ride to warn the town that the British soldiers were coming. -
The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought during the Siege of Boston in the first stage of the American Revolutionary War. -
The Declaratory Act, passed by Parliament on the same day the Stamp Act was repealed, stated that Parliament could make laws binding the American colonies "in all cases whatsoever." -
The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts. -
the late-18th-century meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that united in support of the American Revolution and its associated Revolutionary War, which established American independence from the British Empire.