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British Parliament passed the Sugar act. It taxed sugar, certain wines, coffee, molasses, and etc. It was meant to encourage more trade with the British. With the tax on molasses there was a decline in rum. They rioted against this and many other acts/taxes...boycott buying British goods. -
The British Parliament passed the Currency Act. This prohibition prohibited the American colonies from giving bills of credit the same status as legal tenders. Bills of credits were the solution to the lack of silver and gold coins in the colonies. -
The British Parliament passed the Stamp act. It made colonists pay a tax, and by representing that they paid the tax they would get a stamp. They taxed various paper type goods, documents, playing cards, and even dice.The colonists thought that this was a violation of their rights because they had no say into being taxed. The problem isn't the tax, it was that they didn't have a say in it. -
British Parliament passed the quartering act. Its primary idea was to raise revenue from the British colonies to America. The act forced American colonists to provide British soldiers with housing and food. -
Parliament passed the Townshend acts. The name comes from the man ‘Charles Townshend’ who was the chief treasurer of the British empire, also in charge of economic and financial matters. The Townshend Act was a series of other taxes. It implemented taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea imported to the colonies. These acts were designed to raise revenue. With doing this the British received lots of riots and boycotts from the American colonists. -
The tea act was passed. The act made the company: The East India tea company didn’t have to ship their tea into Britain before they went to the colonies. Therefore the act retained duty on imported tea. -
In Griffin’s Wharf in Boston Massachusetts Americans dumped Tea into the Boston Harbor. It was angry colonists that were mad about “Taxation without Representation” so they dumped 342 chests of Tea from the British East India Company -
The Intolerable Acts were passed. It was a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party. -
The Administration of Justice Act was passed. The Administration of Justice Act suspended the right of self-government in the Massachusetts colony by allowing the newly appointed Military Governor to send rebellious colonists for trial in other colonies or in Great Britain to be heard by a British judge -
On April 19th 1775 in the morning the first shot was fired at Lexington. It was called “The Shot Heard Around the World” which broke out the war against the colonists and the British