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Road to the American Revolution

By kskobel
  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act

    Act by Parliament to lower tax on molasses in the American colonies so the colonists would buy British and not smuggle from French and Spanish.
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    Tax on printed paper in American colonies.
  • Declaratory Act

    Declaratory Act

    Declared that Parliament could tax the American colonies.
  • Townshend Acts

    Townshend Acts

    Taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea.
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    Street fight between patriot mob and British soldiers in the streets of Boston, MA.
  • Tea Act

    Tea Act

    Tax on tea in American colonies. Only the British East India Company could sell tea in the colonies.
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    Colonists dressed as Indians boarded merchant ships in Boston Harbor and threw all the tea overboard.
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts

    Harsh laws passed by Parliament to punish American colonists for protesting.
  • Lexington and Concord

    Lexington and Concord

    First battles of the American Revolution
  • Repeal Stamp Act

    Repeal Stamp Act

    Nullified the Stamp Act of 1765