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The Sugar Act
Under the Suger Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses. But because of corruption, they mostly evaded the taxes and undercut the intention of the tax. The tax decreased times again and yield up finally. The situation disrupted the colonial economy by reducing the markets to which the colonies could sell, and the amount of currency available to them for the purchase of British manufactured goods. -
The Currency Act
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The Stamp Act
It is a tax for all pieces of paper, including legal documents, newspapers, and playing cards were also levied with the tax. Americans voiced their protest. The colonists enacted widespread boycotts of British goods. Soon, the pressure on Parliament by business-starved British merchants was too great to bear. The Stamp Act was repealed the following year. -
The Quartering Act of 1765
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The Virginia Stamp Act Resolutions
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Stamp Act Congress
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The Declaratory Act
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The Townshend Revenue Act
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Boston Non-Importation Agreement
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The Boston Massacre
A mob of about 60 angry townspeople descended upon the guard at the customs house. When reinforcements were called, the crowd became more unruly, hurling rocks and snowballs at the guard and reinforcements. The English soldier shoot these people. Five of them were killed. -
The Gaspee Affair
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The Tea Act
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The Boston Tea Party
radical townspeople stormed the ships and tossed 342 chests of tea into the water. Disguised as Native Americans, the offenders could not be identified. The damage in modern American dollars exceeded three quarters of a million dollars. Not a single British East India Company chest of tea bound for the 13 colonies reached its destination. Not a single American colonist had a cup of that tea. -
Boston Port Act, one of the "Intolerable Acts"
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Intolerable Acts
Series of laws sponsored by British Prime Minister Lord North and enacted in 1774 in response to the Boston Tea Party. These Acts were the harshest so far of all the Acts passed by Parliament. The closing of Boston's port alone would cost the colony a ton of money. The Regulating Act was aimed at curtailing revolutionary activities. The Quartering Act angered colonists who didn't want soldiers in their houses. -
Administration of Justice Act, one of the "Intolerable Acts"
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Massachusetts Government Act, one of the "Intolerable Acts"
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Quartering Act of 1774, one of the "Intolerable Acts"
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Quebec Act, one of the "Intolerable Acts"
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The First Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia and issues Declaration and Resolves
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The Association
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Galloway's Plan rejected
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The Second Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia
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The Virginia Declaration of Rights
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The First Virginia Constitution
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Congress debates and revises the Declaration of Independence
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Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence
