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Sugar Act
Reduced the rate of tax on molasses from six people to three pence per gallon. The tax raised for foreign goods such as coffee, cambric, wines and printed calico. The sugar act was designed to stop trade between New England and the Middle Colonies. It reduced major trade and impacted the economy negatively. The sugar act led to anger and to the American Revolutionary War. -
Stamp Act
Your required to pay tax on every printed piece of paper. Great Britain passed a law requiring colonists to pay tax in the form of stamps on certain documents. The most effective people were lawyers, ministers and printers. Refusing to use the stamps colonists burned them and started riots. In 1765 the colonists formed a Stamp Act Congress asking Parliament to repeal the law. -
Quartering Act
British laws that are made to attend the British soldiers nicely mannered. At the expense of American colonists they had to feed and provide shelter for the British. The New York colonial refused to follow the law and so in 1767 Parliament passed the New York Restraining Act. the Restraining Act told the royal governor of New York from signing any further legislation until they accept the Quartering Act. -
Boston Massacre
A street fight between a "patriot" mob and a group of British soldiers. British troops quartered in Boston opened fire after being harassed by an angry mob of colonists in which 5 colonists died. Boston colonists including Samuel Adams demanded the removal of British troops from Boston. Eventually a town meeting was called for punishing the British trial of Captain Preston for murder. The Boston Massacre led to the Revolutionary War. -
Boston Tea Party
There was a large angry gathered in downtown Boston. They all demanded the ships with tea should be brought back to London. Then Samuel Adams and 70 others arrived disguised as Indians. They all broke open the tea of Bostonians and watched from shore have a nice time with the Boston Tea party. The colonists then fought British soldiers who treated them poorly, other British laws increased over the years and eventually leading the American colonies to revolution. -
Intolerable Acts
The British were furious when they found out that the Boston Colonists made "tea with salt water". So the British made laws that would punish the Massachusetts colonists. In response to colonial protests, Britain passed a series of laws designed to punish the colonies. The laws essentially took away the power of self-government in Massachusetts. The first Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia and sent a list of grievances to Great Britain. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
A military fought in the American Revolutionary War. 700 British troops advance towards concord to seize the colonists military supplies. In Lexington, about 70 Minutemen fought the British and in concord hundreds of colonists force the British troops to withdraw. It was the beginning of the Revolutionary
