-
Under the Sugar and Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses.
-
-
Law of requiring all legal and commercial documents to carry and official stamp showing a tax had been paid.
-
The Quartering Act is a name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing.
-
The Stamp Act Congress or First Congress of the American Colonies was a meeting held between October 7 and 25, 1765 in New York City, consisting of representatives from some of the British colonies in North America
-
Acts passed by Parliament in 1767 to tax imports in the Colonies.
-
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers.
-
The Tea Act was the final straw in a series of unpopular policies and taxes imposed by Britain on her American colonies.
-
The Boston Tea Party was when the colonists boarded british ship and thre their tea overboard into the harbor.
-
The Intolerable Acts were the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party.
-
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution.
-
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare, the American Revolutionary War had begun.
-
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
-
An Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act.
Plan projects on a visual timeline
Map milestones, phases, deadlines, and key events in one place so the sequence is easier to see and share. Timetoast is a timeline maker for work, school, research, and stories.