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Sugar Act
The Sugar ActThe Sugar Act was put into use becase the Sugar and Molasses Act of 1733 was about to expire. In the Sugar and Molasses act, traders had to pay 6 pence per gallon on foreign molasses. The Sugar Act reduced the price from 6 pence to 3 pence. It also started to tax sugar, some kinds of wine, coffee, pimiento cambric, and printed calico. The Sugar Act also made the rum industry go down, because the colonies had a hard time trading with the other countries that wanted rum. -
Committiees of Correspondence
The Committees of Correspondence were created as early as 1764. The earliest committee was formed in Boston, wrote to the other colonies, urging them to fight against Great Britain. A year later, New York formed a committee, fighting to repeal the Stamp Act. It created the Stamp Act Congress in NY. Nine colonies sent representatives to be in this committee. In 1772, Boston formed another committee that was more organized than the first. These led the way for the First Continental Congress. -
Stamp Act of 1765
The Stamp Act was passed by the British, imposing taxes on the colonists. The colonists had to pay taxes for every piece of paper they bought, even playing cards! The taxes collected from the colonists, were used to pay for protection in the Appalacian Mountains. This made the colonists mad, because before, taxes were never used to raise money. -
Sons of Liberty
Begining in early summer 1765, the Sons of Liberty joined forces to force Stamp Distributors to resign. They were most likely the people that planned the Boston Tea Party.Samuel Adams is usually credited for coming up with the Sons of Liberty, but no one is sure who really started the orginazation. They first started popping up in the New York and Boston areas when the Stamp Act first came out. Their motto was "No taxation without representation." -
Townshend Acts
This act, passed by the British Parliament taxed, glass, oil, paper, lead, paint, and tea. It was designed to raise 40,000 euros to collect revenue from the colonies. The Townshend Acts were passed shorltly after the Stamp Act was no more. The people in Boston once again boycotted the goods taxed in the Townshend Acts. Around 1770, this act was repealed. -
The Boston Massacre
On March 5th, 1770, two mobs were in a street in Boston. The two mobs were the patriots and the British Redcoats. One patriot threw a snowball at a British Redcoat. The British fired into the patriot crowd, killing 3 people and wounding 8 others. There was a trial, and two of the British soilders were found guilty of manslaughter. This was one of the events building up to the Revolutionary War. -
The Tea Act
The Tea Act, passed by the British Parliament, for once, did not make the colonists mad by putting taxes on, what everybody would think, tea. This act was supposed to help the East India Company, which had millions of boxes of unsold tea. The tea was going to go to the colonies. I'd think the colonists would be happy about this, but no. The colonists thought the British were doing it to help the popularity of the taxes. The colonists in New York and Philidelphia told the ships to go back. -
The Boston Tea Party
After the Tea Act, the colonists were mad. The colonists in Boston didn't tell the ships to go back to Britain, they dressed up as Indians and dumped all the tea into the harbor. The colonists tried to tell Britain to take the ships back, they didn't want the tea, but Britain wouldn't hear it.So Boston dressed up and dumped the tea. Later, Britain punished the colony by imposing the Coercive Acts on them in 1774. -
Intolerable Acts
Parliament was getting pretty mad. The colonies were rebelling, and they didn't like it. They needed to do something to punish the colonies. after the Boston Tea Party, Britain closed the Boston harbor with the Coercive Acts.Town meetings were also banned. Also, the British commander of North American forces, General Gage, was now govenor of Massachusetts. British people( like the ones in the Boston Massacre) were now tried outside of Massacusetts for murder. -
First Contenental Congress
Meeting in Philiadelphia, the First Continintal Congress met in response to the Intolerable Acts. Every colony sent a representative, except Georgia. The objective once they got to the meeting was not as great as before though. They wanted the King and Parliment to understand the ways of the colonies though. They decided to make a group to represent the colonies as a whole, If the King didn't understand what they wanted by the next year, Congress decided to meet again.
