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Sugar Act
The Sugar Act had many names such as the Plantation Act of Revenue act. The people started to smuggle sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch. This act brought goodness and halved the previous tax on molasses. This signaled the end of what could be colonial exemption from revenue raising taxing. Items that were affected were items such as sugar, certain wines, and coffee. This also brought the major problem of of taxation on paper. For every piece of printer paper used they had to pay tax. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act of 1765 was their first internal taxation directed directly on American colonialists by the British parliament. The British Empire was deep in debt from the "Seven Years War". They tried to argue that their own representative assemblies couldn't tax them. Parliament passed the "Stamp Act" on March 22nd, 1756. They also repealed it later in 1766 but ran into a Declaratory Act. These acts and arguments lead on for 10 years and started the rebellion against the British. -
Boston Massacre
This started as a deadly riot on King Street in Boston. The events of the Boston Massacre started as a brawl but turned into a deadly riot. This was between British Soldiers and American Colonists. The British were trying to enforce Britain's tax laws like the Stamp Act. skirmishes between colonists and soldiers became more common. A kid was killed in attack enraging patriots. On a snowy night in March 1770, the British attacked the Custom House on King Street which had the kings money in it. -
Boston Tea Party
The public protested wishing for British tax on tea. Their main slogan is ' no taxation without representation". This resulted in "The Intolerable Acts". The first fight began after a group of colonists threw snowballs at a British sentinel guarding the Customs House in Boston. The main event, at night a big group of "The Sons of Liberty" members disguised as Native Americans boarded ships and threw chests of tea off the boats and into the water. Having a big fight breakout on the harbor. -
The Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts laws were passed after the Boston Tea Party. these laws were made to punish Massachusetts colonists for their boldness in the Boston Tea Party protest. This also strengthened British authority. the port was closed till the colonists had paid for the tea they dumped into the harbor (342 chests of tea).The Intolerable Acts represented them trying to reimpose that there should be strict control on the American colonies by the British. But after 10 years it was too late. -
Fighting of Lexington and Concord
The British marched from Boston to Concord. Paul Revere and other riders sounded the alarm and the colonial militiamen began mobilizing and a fight began and resulted in the British retreating. A person named Joseph Warren found out when the British would be marching next. So he reported to concord. 700 British troops arrived in Lexington and by the end with reinforcements 2000 militiamen were killed but ended with the Bristish retreating after burning part of the town. -
Battle on Bunker Hill
British defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17th, 1775. Even though Americans lost the had many British casualties and this boosted the Americans confidence going into the "Siege of Boston". America was very low on ammo throughout the fight on Breeds Hill leading to Bunker Hill. Prescott said dont fire till you see the white of their eyes leaving more dead because of limited ammo compared to the British. The British retreated and reattached and ended up succeeding,