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Sugar Act
The Sugar Act put a three-cent tax on foreign refined sugar and increased taxes. Taxes were raised without the consent of the colonists. -
The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament. The new tax required all American Colonists to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper. The money that was collected was to be used to help pay the cost of protection the American frontier. -
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Stamp Act Congress
It was a meeting that consisted of representaties from some of ther British colonies in North America. This was the first gathering of elected representatves to devise a unified protest against the new taxation. -
Formation of the Sons of Liberty
A group of men from Boston and New York who worked together to help stop the British from taxing the American Colonists. -
Formation of Daughters of Liberty
The group of women supported the boycott of tea and cloth produced in England. They wanted American colonists to support the American businesses and to produce their own products. -
Repeal of Stamp Act
Parliment voted to repel, or take back, the Stamp Act. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act was passed by the Parliament. It made it to where American Colonists counld only buy tea from the East India Company. -
Boston Tea Party
Massachusetts Patriots were protesting on the monopoly on the Tea Act. The Patriots seized 342 chests of tea and dumped them into the ocean. -
Battles of Lexingtion and Concord
This was the first military interaction of the American Revolutioary War.
