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Stamp Act
The Stamp Act put taxes on every single paper product that was available to buy. Even playing cards. This act was put into use by Britain to make money for the soldiers protecting the colonists. -
Stamp Act Congress
The Stamp Act was Britain's first try in raising money for themselves through taxing and not trading. This caused many protesting against Britain and a letter from Massachussets caused a congress. The Sons of Liberty led by Samuel Adams was a resistant force against the stamp act. They burned houses and tared tax collectors and was a great annoyance to Britain -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts were a series of 1767 laws named for Charles Townshend. These laws placed taxes new taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea. The colonists hated these acts and Britain eventually repealed all of them except for the tea act. To take care of the rebellious colonists, Great Britain sent more troops to the colonies -
Boston Massacre
The Boston massacre was an event that was caused by the colonists rebelling and arguing with British soldiers. The soldiers opended fire and killed 6 people. Paul Revere made the historic color print shown in the picture on the here. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act was an act where the american colony was taxed for every load of tea brought into harbors, especially the Boston Harbor. Many colonists did not like these acts and did not like being taxed without being asked to give their own opinions. This is where we get "no taxation without representation". However, despite,"no taxation without representation, most of the taxes were passed even though there was verbal protesting and even physical protesting like the Boston Massacre -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was an act of rebellion where Boston colonists dressed as Native Americans went aboard the ships with the tea loads on them. On the ships in the dead of night, the colonists threw all the tea boxes overboard into the cold harbor. As a result, England demanded that the Boston government pay back the tea but all of the locals refused. In acts of rebellion, the redcoats, British troops, closed the Boston Harbor for a period of time. -
Intolerable Act - Impartial Administration of Jusitce act
The Impartial Administration of Justice act was one of the five intolerable acts. This act allowed the royal governor of a colony to move trials to England or other colonies if he thought that the juries in specific colonies did not treat the cases impartialy. -
Intolerable act - Massachusetts Bay Regulating Act
The second intolerable act was the Massachusetts Bay Regulating Act. This act made all law officers subject to appointment by the royal governor and banned all town meetings that didn't have approval of the royal governor. -
Intolerable act - Boston Port Act
The third intolerable act was the Boston Port Act. This act directly punished the Boston Tea party. This act closed the port of Boston until the price of the dumped tea was recovered. -
Intolerable act - Quartering Act
The quartering act allowed British redcoats to stay in houses or buildings if barraks were not available. The first quartering act required rations and quarters but the second only provided quarters for the soldiers. -
Intolerable act - Quebec Act
The quebec act was the last of the five intolerable acts. This act granted civil government and religious freedom to Catholics living in Quebec. -
1st continental congress
The 1st continental congress was in Philadelphia and had 56 delegates from 12 colonies except Georgia meet and discuss the Intolerable acts. -
Concord/Lexington
April 19, 1775 was the day the first shots fired between American and British troops occured. The British wanted to march to Concord because it was an arms depot. The Americans had stockpiled weapons in Concord. British troops occupied Boston and were marching towards Concord and passed through Lexington. There, the shot heard round the world was the first bullet shot. After the first shot, both sides opened fire and the Americans had to retreat... continued on other dot. -
Concord/Lexington continued
Although the Americans had to retreat, they slowed the British enough to allow Paul Revere to warn the Americans about the British coming. This allowed the Americans to attack with full force and they forced the British to retreat. The British were then harassed by militiamen along their retreating path. -
2nd continental congress
The second continental congress met in 1775 the year the revolutionary war had started. Things were very messy and the armed forces were disorganized. The Continental Congress created the Continental Army and named George Washington commander in chief. The congress produces the Decleration of Independence which was written by Thomas Jefferson, and the Articles of Confederation. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
The Battle of Bunker Hill was a two day battle between redcoats under control of General William Howe and continental soldiers under Colonel William Prescott.The Americans were in Breed's HIll in Charlestown on June 16, 1775, to protect the shipyard near Boston. The next day, British attacked. A famous quote "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes," Was said during this battle. -
The Olive Branch Petition
The Olive Branch Petition was a resolutoin passed by the second continental congress that sent King George a letter that wanted to avoid a full blown war. -
Common Sense
Common Sense was a pamphlet by Thomas Paine a friend of Benjamin Franklin. This pamphlet was about demanding complete independance from Britain and was read by commeners and even the highly educated. The great general George Washington read "Crisis" to his troops during the hardest times of wara. Crisis was a series of pamphlets by Thomas Paine after publishing Common Sense -
Declaration of Independence
The declaration's basis was written by Thomas Jefferson and was a document that stated that the United States of America would be independent of Great Britian and that Britain would not control the colonies anymore. The decleration was completed on july 4, 1776. This is why the 4th of July is celebrated.
