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Sons of Liberty one formed
During the Parliamentary debate over the Stamp Act (1765), Isaac Barré referred to the American opponents of the new tax as the "Sons of Liberty*." Secret radical groups in the colonies adopted this name and worked to oppose the stamp tax and other later parliamentary revenue programs. -
Townshend Act
On 29 June 1767 Parliament passes the Townshend Acts. They bear the name of Charles Townshend, Chancellor of the Exchequer, who is—as the chief treasurer of the British Empire—in charge of economic and financial matters. With the repeal of the Stamp Act, money is needed for "defraying the expenses" of administering the colonies in America. The Acts create a new Customs Commission and punish New York for refusing to abide by the Quartering Act of 1765. -
Boston Massure
The Boston Massure was an incident that led to the deaths of five civilians at the hands of British troops, the legal after math of which helped spark the rebellion on some of the British American colonies, which culiminated in the American Revolutionary War. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act passed by Parliamenr on May 10, 1773, would Launch the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. The Act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies , and in fact imposed no new taxes. -
Boston Tea Party
was a direct action by colonists in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the British government and the monopolistic East India Company that controlled all the tea imported into the colonies. On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor. The incident remains an iconic event of American history, and other political p -
Intolerance Acts
The intolerable acts, which are also known as the Coercive acts. The laws got passed in 1774. And the laws were meant for destroying the tea from India in the Boston tea party. Four laws passed by the British parliament in 1744. AKA Coercive acts. They were meant to punish the colony of Massachusetts for destroying the tea that belonged to east India. Because of the Boston Tea Party and Massachusetts couldnt repay India for the tea. -
1st Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from tweleve of the thirteen North American colonies that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revoluntion. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The first shots starting the revolution were fired at Lexington, Massachusetts. On April 18, 1775, British General Thomas Gage sent 700 soldiers to destroy guns and ammunition the colonists had stored in the town of Concord, just outside of Boston. They also planned to arrest Samuel Adams and John Hancock, two of the key leaders of the patriot movement. -
Paul Revere's Ride
"Paul Revere's Ride" (1860) is a poem by an American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that commemorates the actions of American patriot Paul Revere on April 18, 1775. -
2nd Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegrates from the Thirteen Colonies tha met beginning on May 10, 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
Boycott of Acts (Colonial)
A boycott is an act of voluntarily abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with a person, organization, or country as an expression of protest, usually for political reasons. It can be a form of consumer activism. -
Common Sense Published
is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine. It was first published anonymously on January 10, 1776, during the American Revolution. Common Sense, signed "Written by an Englishman", became an immediate success.[2] In relation to the population of the Colonies at that time, it had the largest sale and circulation of any book in American history. Common Sense presented the American colonists with an argument for freedom from British rule at a time when the question of independence was still undecided.
