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stamp act
to get back the massive debt from the war with France, parliament passed a law called the stamp act. The stamp act taxed a wide range of transactions in the colonies. and in each colony had its own government, which they decide what taxes they would have -
The townshend acts
parliament then again tries to make its authority by passing the legislation to tax the things that americns imported from great britain. So the crown talked about a board of commissioners to stop smuggling and corruption of the officials in the colonies -
The Boston massacre
there is a lot of tension between the British occupiers and Boston residents. when a disagreement between an apprentice wig-maker and a British soldier led to a crowd of 200 colonists surrounding seven British troops. -
The Boston Tea Party
The British eventually withdrew their forces from Boston and repealed Townshend legislation. But they kept the tax on tea. In 1773 their was a new law called the tea act and it helped the British East India company with its financial problems. That law gave that company extended favorable treatment under tax regulations. It let them sell the tea at a price that undercut the american merchants who imported from dutch traders. -
The Coercive Acts
he British government decided that it had to tame the rebellious colonists in Massachusetts. In the year of 1774 Parliament passed a bunch of laws the Coercive Acts, which closed Boston Harbor until restitution was paid for the destroyed tea. -
Lexington and Concord
General Thomas Gage from Britain led a force of British soldiers from Boston to Lexington, where he planned to capture colonial radical leaders. The British lost 73 dead, with another 174 wounded and 26 missing in battle. -
British attacks on coastal towns
The southerners were totally dependent upon the English to buy their crops. it was unclear whether the southern colonies whose interests didn’t necessarily align with the northern colonies would be all in for a war of independence