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The first tax put on sugar and molasses imported from the French and Spanish west Indies.
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A law requiring Colonists to pay a tax in the form of stamps on certain commercial items.
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Four laws declaring Britain’s authority over the colonies, and set up strict measures for collecting taxes.
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British troops were being harassed by an angry mob of Colonists and opened fire, killing 5 people.
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Britain restructured the tax on tea to give a special advantage to the British East India Company
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Colonists reacted to the tax on tea from the British by throwing their barrels of tea into the ocean.
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A series of laws passed by Britain designed to punish the Colonies after the Boston Tea Party.
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Delegates met in Philadelphia to bring the Colonies together and boycott the British.
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700 British troops advanced towards Concord to seize the Colonists’ military supplies.
