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There is a tax imposed on objects through the system of stamp requirement.
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The colonists prepare Declaration of Rights and Grievances.
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British taxes colonial imports and stations troops at major colonia sports to protect customs officers.
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Colonists protest "taxation without representation" and organize a new boycott of imported goods.
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Troops stationed in Boston are tinted by an angry mob. The troops fire into the crowd killing five colonists.
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Agitators label the conflict as a massacre and publish dramatic engraving depicting the violence
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Britain gives the East India Company special concessions in the colonial tea business and shuts out colonial tea merchants.
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Colonists in Boston rebel, dumping 18,000 pounds of East India Company tea into Boston Harbor.
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King George II tightens control over Massachusetts by closing Boston Harbor and quartering troops.
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Leaders form the First Continental Congress and draw up a declaration of colonial rights.
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Minutemen intercept the British and engage in battle- first at Lexington, and then at Concord.
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General Gage orders troops to march to Concord, Massachusetts, and seize colonial weapons.
