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Although it reduced tax on moslasses, the sugar act was strictly enforced, so colonist ended up paying more taxes.
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Those who opposed Britain called themselves patriots and the sons of liberty where born and lead by Samuel Adams.
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The stamp act was a tax on printed items was the first direct tax on the colonist. It added a fee to printed materiel's such as legal documents and newspapers.
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Following the french and Indian war, Britain maintained a standing army in the colonies. The Quartering Act required colonial assemblies to house and provision soldiers.
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Sons of Liberty took down an office and damaged the house of a stamp collector.
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The Declatory Act was passed that repealed the stamp act but asserted parliament rights to rule the colonies as they see fit.
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The Townsend Acts where a bunch of taxes on everything imported but it was so unpopular that they removed it off of everything except tea.
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A group of colonist threw snowballs/rocks at some of the soldiers and the soldiers fired into the crowd leaving 5 colonist dead.
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The Tea Act was created although it lowered the price on tea it treated the business of colonial importers
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Boston patriots dressed up as indians and dumped 3 ships worth of tea into the boston river later this event is known as the boston tea party.
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The Intolerable Act meant the colonist had to pay for the tea they dumped and they had to house a British Soldier
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March- "Give me liberty or Give me Death"
April- Battle of Lexington and Concord
May-Second Continental congress meets
June- Battle of Bunker Hill
July- Colonist sends the "olive branch" -
January- Thomas Paine publishes common sense
July- Thomas Jefferson got the Declaration of Independence approved -
October- Colonist win Saratoga
February- France signs an alliance with the colonies -
General Clinton captures 3000 patriot soldiers and takes them to Charleston, South Carolina
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General Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown
