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Proclamation of 1763
A law that forbade all settlement past a line drawn across the Appalachian mountains -
Sugar act
The British parliament taxed all sugar and molasses . -
Stamp act
This act required all paper products to have a stamp -
Townshend revenue act
The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed, beginning in 1767, by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program. The act taxed glass, paint, paper, and tea. -
Boston massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed . -
Tea act
The British government made tea from the east India tea company cheaper than all American tea -
Boston tea party
The Boston Tea Party (initially referred to by John Adams as "the Destruction of the Tea in Boston") was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. The demonstrators, some disguised as American Indians, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company -
Intolerable acts
The Intolerable Acts were the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor.The acts includes were the Boston port act, Massachusetts governing act, administration of justice act, quartering act,and Quebec act -
Lexington and concord
Britain's General Gage had a secret plan.
During the hours of April 19, 1775, he would send out regiments of British soldiers quartered in Boston. Their destinations were LEXINGTON, where they would capture Colonial leaders Sam Adams and John Hancock then CONCORD where they would tale gunpowder
