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US History

By knickles

  • Stamp Act

    The Stamp Act was Parliament's first serious attempt to assert governmental authority over the colonies

  • Tea Act

    The Tea Act, passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, would launch the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. The act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies, and in fact imposed no new taxes. It was designed to prop up the East India Company which was floundering financially and burdened with eighteen million pounds of unsold tea. This tea was to be shipped directly to the colonies, and sold at a bargain price

  • Boston Port Act- one of the intollerable acts

    AN ACT to discontinue, in such manner, and for or such time as are therein mentioned, the landing and discharging, lading or shipping, of goods, wares, and merchandise, at the town, and within the harbour, of Boston, in the province of Massachuset's Bay, in North America.

  • Administration of Justice Act- one of the intollerable acts

    AN ACT for or the impartial administration of justice in the cases of persons questioned for any acts done by them in the execution of the law, or for the suppression of riots and tumults, in the province of the Massachuset's Bay, in New England.

  • Massachusetts Government Act-m one of the intollerable acts

    AN ACT for the better regulating the government of the province of the Massachuset's Bay, in New England.

  • Quartering Act of 1774- one of the intollerable acts

    Quartering Act is a name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing. It also required colonists to provide food for any British soldiers in the area

  • Quebec Act- one of the Intollerable Acts

    AN ACT for making effectual Provision for the Government of the Province of Quebec, in North America.

  • The Rides of Paul Revere and William Dawes

  • Minutemen and redcoats clash at lexington and concord

    "the shot heard 'round the world.

  • Battle of Bunker Hill

  • Signing of the Declaration of Independence