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Conflict in war between Great Britain and France
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An imposed tax on printed material
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An incident in which British armies shot and killed 5 people
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A group of Sons of Liberty dressed as Indians and destroyed over 92,000 pounds of British tea
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A political protest, where colonists threw 342 chests of British tea into the harbor
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A series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament
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A meeting of delegates from 12 of the Thirteen Colonies
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A convention of the delegates of the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in spring
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They were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War
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A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine advocating the independence from Great Britain
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The Continental Congress creates a committee to draft The Declaration of Independence
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A series of British Acts of Parliament passed relating to the British American colonies in North America