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Sugar Act
The reason they passed the sugar act was to get more money so they could get more security. Great Britian hope that the colonies would sell there good to britian. Some of the leaders quite buying british goods.The leader wanted Great Britian to lower the price. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was the first taxe given directly on the American Colonies. It was for all the taxes on all paper documents. It was created to help cover the cost of the maintaining troops in the colonies. -
Townshend Act
The townshend act was the imposed duties on glass,lead,paper, paints and, tea.They thought that the people would accept the taxes for import duties.On April 1770 they repealed all the Townshend duties accept for the tea taxes. -
The First Continental Congress
Most of the colonists accepted british rules intell they had tea act. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was when people dressed up as indians and throw the tea off the ship into the ocean.The reason they throw the tea off the ship was because they didn't like the tea taxes. So they wanted to prove a point to the King. They threw 342 chests of tea. -
Common Sense
Thomas Paine wrote this to setting his arguments in favor of the Americas Independence.He used average citizens and political leaders behind the idea of independence. -
The Declaration of Independence July 4 1776
The Declaration Independence was when the patriots won the revolutionary war and they had King George III sing the Declaration Independence and they were free.
