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Major events and Acts of The American Revolution
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The Sugar and Molasses Act
This was an earlier version of The Sugar Act. It was later ratified because it was about to expire. -
The Sugar Act
On April 5, 1764, Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act (1733). Under the Sugar and Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses The English product would be cheaper than that from the French West Indies. This hurt the British West Indies market in sugar. All in total 50 letters were delivered to Parliament in response to the Sugar Act. -
The Currency Act
The Currency Act is one of many several Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain that regulated paper money issued by the colonies of British America. English merchants had insisted for years that payment in colonial currency left them underpaid for their goods. But colonists insisted that without their own paper money they could not maintain vigorous economic activity. -
The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, and even playing cards were taxed.The colonists protested for months, they even threatened to pull down and burn the stamp office. Courts were shut down because people refused to buy stamps then a boycott of stamps started.The British eventually repealed it. -
The Quartering Act
The Quartering Act of 1765 required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies. The colonists disputed the legality of this Act because it seemed to violate the Bill of Rights of 1689. British officers who had fought in the French and Indian War found it hard to persuade colonial assemblies to pay for quartering and provisioning of their troops. -
The Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts were made on June 15, 1767. The Townshend Acts imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies. The colonists were very angry. -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was an event on March 5, 1770 in which British Army soldiers shot and killed people while under attack by a mob.It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing for a while since the British were sent to enforce the taxes. The British just looked at it as an unfortunate accident that was blown out of proportion by the colonists. The colonists used this event to their advantage. It caused the British to ban all taxes except for the tax on tea. -
The Tea Act
This was the final spark that ed to the Revolutionary War. It was designed to prop up the East India Company which was floundering financially and burdened with eighteen million pounds of unsold tea.The colonist responded by throwing all the tea into the harbor (The Boston Tea Party). The British reacted by giving the East India Trading Company some money for the tea they sold. -
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773. The colonists responded to the tea tax by dumping all the tea into the ocean. It affected the British because they lost thousands of dollars worth of tea. -
The Boston Port Act
The Boston Port Act was designed to punish the people of Boston, Massachusetts for the incident that would become known as the Boston Tea Party. It was one of the acts in the Intolerable Acts. It became a law on March 31, 1774, and took effect on June 1, 1774. The other colonies sympathized with the people of Massachusetts and many deplored all of the Intolerable Acts including the Boston Port Act. -
The Quebec Act
The Quebec Act was passed by the British Parliament to allow a permanent administration in Canada replacing the temporary government created at the time of the Proclamation of 1763. It gave the French Canadians complete religious freedom and restored French civil law. The colonist's resented Britain even more after the act was passed. The British was just trying to help the French. -
2nd Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the spring of 1775 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This was good for the colonists. -
1st Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies who met from September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania early in the American Revolution. It was a series of measures imposed by the British government on the colonies in response to their resistance to new taxes. -
Edenton Tea Party
The Edenton Tea Party was a political protest in Edenton, North Carolina, in response to the Tea Act. It effected the British because they could not get any money because the colonists were boycotting it. -
The Ride of Paul Revere
The Ride of Paul Revere was on April 18th, 1775. The Ride of Paul Revere was to warn people about the British coming to fight the colonists at Concord. Because of this the colonists were ready to fight the British. As a result the British lost. -
The Shot Heard Round The World
The farmers were the ones that fired the shot heard round the world. It was the first shot of the Revolutionary War. -
Common Sense
The pamphlet talked about Thomas Paine's argument for American independence. He said, “Europe, and not England, is the parent country of America. The colonists supported this. -
The Declaratory Act
The Declaratory Act declared that the British should have full power and authority to make laws. The colonists were very angry because they thought that this would mean that more acts were coming. The British reaction was happy because they could finally enforce laws without them arguing. -
The Deceleration of Independence
the Deceleration of Independence was the document that gave birth to the United States of America. The colonist's were thrilled that they had finally broken away from Great Britain and gained their independence. The British declared the Revolutionary War against the colonies which the colonists won. -
Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation, formally the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, was an agreement with the 13 original colonies of the United States of America that served as its first constitution. The Articles of Confederation came into force on March 1, 1781, after being ratified by all 13 states.
