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The act that required colonists to pay for a stamp, on many different forms of paper. It was directed by the British government without consulting the colonists and was payable in British sterling, instead of colonial currency. -
7 British soldiers shot into a crowd of Bostonians, killing 5, hurting 6, and making the entire colony mad. -
An American political and mercantile protest on December 16, 1773, by the people of Boston in colonial Massachusetts. -
The Coercive Acts of 1774, known as the Intolerable Acts in the American colonies, were a series of four laws passed by the British to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. -
Common Sense is a 47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies.