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The Quartering Act was made so that when soldiers went to war they could stay in barracks. If the barracks were too small for all of the soldiers then the locals would have to let them stay in houses or inns.
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The Stamp Act was a direct tax on the colonists. Starting in 1765, legal documents and printed materials must bear a tax stamp provided by commissioned distributers.
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The Boston Massacre was a street fight that happened between a patriot mob and British soldiers. In this fight, snowballs, stones, and sticks were thrown by the patriot mob. Several colonists were killed
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The burning of the Gaspee was an open act of civil defiance. Rhode islanders boarded and sank the revenue cutter Gaspee in the Narragansett Bay.
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The Boston Tea Party was a political protest. American colonists were upset at Britain for imposing "taxation without representation." So they dumped 342 chests full of tea imported by the British into the harbor.
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These were acts by the British parliament that in retaliation for acts of colonial defiance.
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The Battle of Bunker Hill took place just a little after the start of the American Revolutionary War. Boston was being surrounded by thousands of American militia. The British were trying to keep control.
