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Sugar Act
The Sugar Act was designed to regulate trade, especially in the New England region and the Stamp Act was the first direct tax on home produced and consumed items. -
Boycott of British goods by colonies
People stopped buying goods that is from British -
Stamp Act
The 1765 Stamp Act was enacted to raise revenue from the American Colonies by a tax in the form of a stamp required on all newspapers, legal and commercial documents. -
Declaratory Act
Declaratory Act The 1766 Declaratory Act was a law that was enacted to assert the British Parliament's authority to pass laws that were binding on the 13 colonies. -
Townshend acts
The 1767 Townshend Acts were a collection of laws that set new import taxes on British goods and the money raised from the taxes was used to maintain British troops in America and to pay the salaries of some officials who were appointed to work in the 13 colonies. -
Tea Act
The 1773 Tea Act was enacted to bail out the British East India Company and expand the company's monopoly on the tea trade to all British Colonies to enable them to sell excess tea at a reduced price. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773. -
Coercive Acts
The 1774 Coercive Acts were 5 separate laws that were enacted to punish the Massachusetts colonists for the actions taken in the Boston Tea Party. -
Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
Declaration of Independence
The United States Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776.
