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Sugar Act
Prime Minister George grenville asked Parliament to tax the colonists to help pay for the army to protect the colonists from the Native Americans. Set duties on molasses and sugar imported by the colonists. This was the first act passed specificallly to raise money in the colonies. -
Commitees of Correspondence
Helped founded by Samuel Adams. Each commitee got in touch with other towns and colonies. Its members shared ideas and information about the new British laws and ways to challenge them. -
Sons of Liberty
Protests against the Stamp Act increased rapidly. So, colonists formed a secret society. Samuel Adams helped organize the group in Boston. This group sometimes used violence to frighten tax collecters. Many colonial courts shut down because people refused to buy the stamps required for legal documents. Buisnesses openly ignored the law by refusing to buy stamps. -
Stamp Act
Prime Minister Grenville proposed the Stamp Act of 1765. The act required colonists to pay for an official stamp, or seal, when they bought paper items. The tax had to be paid on legal dovuments, licenses, newspapers, pamphlets, and even playing cards. Colonists who refused to buy the stamps could be fined or sent to jail. -
Townshend Acts
Parlament placed these duties on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea.. To enforce the Townshend Acts, British officials used writs of assestance. These allowed tax collectors to search for smuggled goods. Colonists hated these new laws because they took power away from colonial goverment. Colonists responded by boycotting many British goods. -
Boston Massacre
Fight/mini war between the colonists and Redcoats. The story quickly spread and used it as propaganda against the British. -
Tea Act
The British East India Company offered a solution. To sell directly to the colonies and if they could do that that would mean cheaper tea. Parliament thought that if they had cheaper tea, that might encourage colonists to stop smuggling. Parliament agreed and passed the Tea Act in 1773, which allowed the british East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonists. Many colonial merchants and smugglers feared that the British East India Company's cheap tea would put them out of buisness. -
Boston Tea Party
On the night of Decemebr 16, colonists disguised as Indians sneaked onto the three tea-filled ships and sumped over 340 chests into Boston Harbour. THey did this because memebers of the Sons o fliberty demanded that the ships leave but the governor of Massachusetts would not let them leave without paying the duuty. And soon enough, all the tea was washed away. -
Intolerable Acts
Lord North, British prime minister, was furious when he heard the news. Parliament decided to punish Boston. These acts/laws had several effects. The British hoped that hese steps would bring back order in the colonies. Instead they simply increased people's anger at Britian. -
1st Continetal Congress
Representatives from all colonies meet to talk about what to do with the Intolerable Acts in play. Congress voted to cut off trade with Great Britain unless Parliament took away the INtolerable Acts. Great Britian didnt want to cut off trade from colnies because that is where they were getting their new resources. By the time this meeting ended, wich was a while, hostilities had begun betweek Britian and tghe colonies.
