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The Sugar act
This was the governments attempts to make get more money to fight in wars by using revenue, or by increasing the amount of money that comes into their government.They also didn't let them buy sugar from anywhere else they had to buy it from great Britain. The Prime Minister of Great Britain, Lord Grenville, put taxes on all sugar imports and ruined the sugar industry because the suppliers were getting less money. So the colonists were outraged so they protested -
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American Revolution
British general Thomas Gage sent 700 troops from Boston to destroy stores of ammunition&weapons.But people ran through the towns warning people that the British were coming so they could stop them.The two army met and set off the first shot kicking off the war, the colonists were out numbered so they retreated back to Concord then the British were out numbered and had to retreat back to Boston where the rebels surrounded them.(Part 2 is in a different event because i couldn't fit it all) -
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The American Revolution prt 2
The rebels got gear from the fort of Ticonderoga and surrounded the British even more and they had to retreat completely out of the colonies. Then Washington moved his army to New York knowing when the British returned they would probably land there. Then Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence on July 2 and it actually took effect July 4th. -
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The Stamp Act
This act taxes all paper used from legal purposes. So the colonists had meeting to discuss what they were going to do about it. In October 1765, 3 representatives from 9 of the colonies met in New York to met as the Stamp Act congress to try to get Great Britain to be more fair.They were also mad because they didn't have any representatives in the Parliament that had taxed on them. So the colonists started making a kerfuffle and boycotting stuff so then Great Britain had to stop with this tax. -
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The Townshend Act
Which is pretty much the same as all the other Acts, the taxed whatever in this case it was glass, lead, oil, tea, and paper. So once again they boycotted and King George III got rid of it. -
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Boston Tea Party
So at this point King George III got mad because the colonists weren't listening and nothing was working so asserted his control by exerting all taxes except for the Tea act.He sent 1000 troops to Boston to take control.Once the troops arrived the Colonists started riots so the troops shot 5 civilians.Then a group of people dressed up as Indians went onto the ship and dumped a bunch of tea in the water.After this Boston was under direct control from Britain.This started the American revolution.