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Boston Massacre (March 5 1770)
The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulates on March 5,1770 -
Tea Act (May 10 1773)
The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, would launch the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. The act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies, and in fact imposed no new taxes. It was designed to prop up the East India Company which was floundering financially and burdened with eighteen million pounds of unsold tea. -
Boston Tea Party (16 Dec 1773)
Is a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. The demonstrators, some disguised as American Indians, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company, in defiance of the Tea Act of May 10, 1773. -
Intolerable Acts (1774)
The Intolerable Acts was the American Patriots' name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. -
French and Indian War (1754-1763 )
The war was fought between the colonies of British America and New France, with both sides supported by military units from their parent countries of Great Britain and France, as well as Native American allies. -
Stamp Act ( 1765)
Was an act of Parliament of Great Britain that imposed a direct tax on the colonies of British America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carry an embossed revenue stamp. -
Lexington Concord ( 1775)
They fought on April 19 1775 in Middlesex County, Provinces of Massachusetts Bay, with in the town of Lexington Concord, Lincoln Menotory ( present-day Arlington ), and cambridge near Boston. -
Townshed Act (1767)
The acts are named after the Charles Townshed the chanceller of the Exchequer, who proposed the programme. -
Publishing of Comman Sense (1775-76)
Comman Sense is a pamplet written by Thomas Pain in 1775-76 that inspired people in the 13 Colonies to declare and fight of independence from Great Britain.
