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Law requiring all legal and commercial documents to carry an official stamp showing that a tax had been paid.
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US History acts, to the signing of the Delaration of Independence.
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Law placing a tax on sugar, and molasses, (etc.), shipped to the colonies.
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Act requiring the colonists to quater, or house, British soilders and provide them with supplies.
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Meeting held in NYC, consisting of representatives from some of the British colonies in North America.
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Stated that Parliament had supreme authority to govern the colonists and the right to make laws for the colonies.
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Taxed lead, glass, paper, and paint - in the colonies.
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Street fight between a "patriot" mob, and British soilders.
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Passed to help British merchants. (lowered price, but still had a tax) (lead to Boston Tea party) - tax on tea
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A political protest by the Sons of Liberty. They threw thousand of crates of tea into the harbor. (Boston harbor) (British then shut the Boston harbor down)
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Forced colonists to form the 1st Continental Congress. (Punishment for the Boston Tea party)
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(to October 26) - A meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies held in Pennsylvania (Philadelphia). (early American Revolution)
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First battle of the Revolutionary War. British soldiers and troops had moved from Boston, towards Lexington and Concord to seize the colonists’ military supplies and arrest revolutionaries. In Concord, advancing British troops met resistance from the Minutemen, and American volunteers harassed the retreating British troops along the Concord and Lexington Road. (Paul Revere comes in)
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A convention of delegates from the thirteen colonies in Pennsylvania (Philadelphia). (soon after warefare, the American Revolutionary War began) (had begun)
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Fundamental document establishing the US as a nation. (approved by Continental Congress) (written mostly by Thomas Jeffreson)
