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stamp act passed
Parliament a new tax that required a stamps for all printed items items included newspapers. -
stamp act repealed
There was a need for money and to raise it they had no choice but to levy taxes on all British subjects included those in the colonies -
stamps act congress
They met to discuss the colonist rights as British subjects declaring that only their colonial legislatures had the power to tax to tax them. -
Declaratory Act passed
Stating that it had all power to make laws that were strong enough to keep in the colonies under Great Britain control. -
Townshend Passed
Were enacted, taxing British import product shipped from other country. -
Townshend act Repeal
The British responded by sending troop to occupy the city -
Boston Massacre
British Soldiers were guarding the Boston customs house, where taxes were collected when a angry mob began Shot rang out and killing five colonist -
Tea act passed
The British East Indian Company was losing money selling their tea. -
Boston Tea Party
Son of liberty dressed as Mohawk Indians, boarded British ships in Boston, and dumped the cargo of Tea into the Harbor -
Coercive act
An outraged Parliament punished the Boston rebels -
Fist Continental congress
Georgia sent delegates to meet in Philadelphia in 1774 -
French and Indian War
British paid a large amount of money to keep the colonies safe and happy by fighting a war with France over control of the land in the Ohio River valley. -
second continental congress
was a meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America which united in the American Revolutionary War. -
revolutionary war begins
The laws the founders of our country found themselves upset. their mother country had tightened. -
declaration of independence
13 colonies were cutting ties Great British and the king One by one they listed every single grievance they had with their mother country most recent rule.
