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Sugar/Coffee Act
The sugar act put a tax on sugar and molasses and impacted the manufacture of rum in New England -
Stamp Act
Led to the stamp act congress and put a tax on all legal documents. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act forced the colonists to house all British soldiers. -
Stamp Act Congress
First Congress in the Colonies. Happened as a result of the colonists anger against the stamp/sugar act. -
Declaratory Act
The declaratory act stated that parliament's authority was the same in America as Britain. -
Towshend Act
The townshend acts were a series of acts passed by Great Britain. They taxed glass, lead, paper, paints and tea. -
Boston Massacre
A street fight between British troops and colonists- some colonists were killed. Was a signal event leading to the revolutionary war. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act placed a tax on tea and it gave only one company the right to sell tea in the colonies. This led the colonists to boycott, therefore many smuggled tea from different countries like Holland. -
Boston Tea Party
An incident that 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown from ships into the Boston Harbor by American patriots that were disguised as Mohawk Indians. It was known as “the Destruction of the tea in Boston” by John Adams. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts was a punishment for the Boston Tea Party. These Acts forced the colonists to form the 1st Continental Congress. -
First Continental Congress
A meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies that was formed to seek a resolution with England and was also a result from the Intolerable Acts. -
Battle of Lexington
The Battle of Lexington was one of the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
Battle of Concord
The Battle of Concord was one of the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
2nd Continental Congress
A convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare, the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
Signing of the Declaration of Independence
The signing of the Declaration of Independence was important because it stated that all men are equal. Additionally, it led to our independence from England and King George III. Lastly, it gave us the right to go to war with England. -
Why do the colonists declare their Independence
The colonists declare their Independence because of their lack of freedom. After the French and Indian War, England was in great debt. As a result, Britian decides to start making money off of the colonists by imposing taxes. This caused the colonists to feel more goverened or in other words want more freedom. The colonists feeling this way will lead to the signing of the Declaration of Independence and lastly to America becoming its own country.
