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The Sugar Act
Colonial merchants had grown rich from trade. Trading and smuggling were the ways the traded with out paying taxes or avoiding duties on imports. The prime minister, George Grenville decided to creat the sugar act to raise money. The colonist did like this and protested, boycotted, and violently intimidated the British. The British just fought back. -
The Stamp Act
Parliament passed a bill intended to raise money from the colonies. The Stamp Act required colonists to pay a tax on almost all printed documents. Such as newspapers, books, court documents, contracts, and land deeds. The colonists alos did not appprove. As a result they protested, boycotted and violently intimadted the British. They wuld burn down tax collectors house and threaten their families. -
The Quartering Act
Parliament passed another law none as the Quartering Act. This act forced the colonies to provide hiusing and supplies for the British soldiers stationed there after the French and Indian War. Colonists just complained but then gave up and went along with the chnages because they accepted Parliament's right to regulate tradae and provide for defense. -
Sons of Liberty
They were a group of men, started by John Hancock and Samuel Adams, who led populsr protests. One of the most famous one took plsce in August 1765, where the Sons of Liberty damaged the house of stamp collecters. Then when Thomas Hutchinson denounced this riot, and thats when they burned down his house aswell. From there after no one dared to voice support for the Stamp Act. -
The Boston Massacre
The colonists were furious of the taxes that were being past that they took matters into their own hands. A group of colonists chucked snowballs and rocks at the British soldiers that were guarding the Customs House. The anxious soldiers began to fire into the crowd. They killed five colonists. Even after all of this parliament did not back down and still had taxes. The colonists continued to boycott British tea. -
The Boston Tea Party
Parliament passed another law allowing the company to sell directly to the colonists. The Brtish tried to trick to colonists to buy the expensive tea instead. As a result the coloists dressed as Indians, boarded three british ships and dumped all of the tea into the harbor. -
The First Continental Congress
After Parliament established the Coercive Acts, all delegates from every colony except Georgia gathered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for the First Continental Congress. -
The Intolerable Acts
Parliament passes these laws to punish Boston for the Boston Tea Party. During this time the Boston harbor was closed, public meetings were made illegal, and military rule was imposed in the colony until the tea was paid for. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
The first battle of the American Revolution. The British troops leave Boston to search for weapons being stored by the Sons of Liberty and to arrest John Hutchinson and Samuel Adams. Paul Revere warned them of the British arrival and nearly 4,000 colonists attcked the British soldiers as the march from Concord back to Boston. About 273 casualties and 90 american soldiers were injured or killed. -
Second Continental Congress
All of the delegates from each colony gathered in Philadelphia, where they issued a new command for the Continental Army, whcih they gave to George Washington. -
Treaty of Paris 1783
The treaty that ended the French and Indian War. It stated that Britain won all of French territories in North America. -
French And Indian War taxes
Parliament needed to raise money, both to pay the debt and to protect the colonies and they looked to taxing the colonies to pay off the debt.
