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sugar and coffee act
Colonists had to pay a tax on sugar and molasses to help pay for the war -
stamp act
All legal and commercial documents were required to carry an official stamp showing it had been paid for -
quartering act
Colonists had to house British soldiers if able and had to provide food and drink and were not repaid -
stamp act congress
was a meeting held to devise a plan to protest against Britain's taxes -
declatory act
Repealed the Stamp act and lessened the tax for the Sugar act -
townshend act
taxed paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea -
boston massacre
a group of British soldiers shot into a group of patriots, killing them -
intolerable acts
It was a direct act on the colonists traditional rights and liberties. They closed the port of Boston until the colonists paid for the tea, they altered the Massachusetts charter to ban town meetings, they replaced the elected council with an appointed one, increased the governor's power over the colonists, they protected british officials accused of crimes in the colonies from being tried by colonists, and they allowed british officers to house troops in private dwellings -
tea act
The British taxed the imported tea for the colonists -
boston tea party
the colonists threw tea into the harbor to protest the high taxes on it -
first continental congress
delegates from all colonies except Georgia met in Philadelphia to talk about options, which lead to a boycott -
battle of lexington and concord
These two battles were the first battles in the revolutionary war -
second continental congress
delegates from all colonies came and began the declaration of independence -
Declaraction of independence
Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, John Adams, and Robert R. Livingston wrote the declaration
