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Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was an indirect tax imposed by the Brithish Parliment. The act required that maney printed materials be produced on stamped paper. They were legal documents, magazines and newspapers. The tax was to help pay for troops stationed in North America. This really made colonists ma, because they were being taxed on tea and now on newspapers. Which is like all they had to do back then, and now they were being taxed again. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act is also known as the the Sugar and molasses Act. Colonial merchants were required to pay the tax. The goal was to decrease colonial smuggling in the West Indies. It was an indirect tax on tea (added to the cost of sugar). This was important, because that is when they started to tax. In which made alot of Americans mad. -
1st Quartering Act
This act requires that Americans must house and feed British Soldiers in the colonies. The colonists were upset with this act becuae they were already being taxed, and now they had to feed and house soldiers. They had to give up certin things in their household like bedding to the soldiers. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was also known as the Boston Riot. In which British Redcoats killed five civilan men. British troops had been stationed in Boston since 1768 in order to prtect and support crown-appointed colonial officals. Amied ongoing tense relations betweeen the population and the soliders, a mob formed around the British sentry, who was subjected to verbal abuse and harassment. This was significant, because they called it a massacre when only five people had died. -
Boston Tea Party
This Act was a direct action by colonists in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the Brithish government. England is determined to exert control. The colonies hadnt anticipatated Englands Resolve. It was significent, because when they dressed up as Indians and dumped all the tea into the Boston Harbor, to show that they were in charge. Showing that they were fed up with paying taxes. -
Lexington and Concord
This was the battles of Lexington and Concord. Where it was the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary war. They fought on April 19, 1775. What happend? the british were having a rought time in Boston. The Militia is forming in Massachucetts, as king George 3rd sent 20,000 troops. As troops went into Concord the English were ready for them. 273 British had died and 95 colonists had died. -
Declaration Of Independence
In congress, July 4th 1776. Annouced that the thirten American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states. It was initaly published as a printed broadside that was widely ditribuated and read to the public. This event was significent because, it united the thirteen colonies.
