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The Currency Act
It protected British merchants from being paid in depreciated colonial currency. -
The Sugar Act
Colonist had to pay a tax of six pence per gallon -
The Quartering Act
the colonist had to let the british sleep and stay inside their house they had to feed them and take care of them the colonist were mad and felt unsafe the britsh didn't care because they could do what they want -
The Stamp Act
colonist had to pay tax for every piece of printed paper they used the colonist were mad especially the printers that do the newspapers the British were happy because they just made for money -
The Declaratory Act
an act of the parliament of Great Britain which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing of the Sugar Act -
The Boston Massacre
The life of 5 colonist were lost in a deadly shooting the colonist were mad and hit one of the British soilder and they tried to defend thereselves so they shot into the angry mob -
Tea Act
granted the British east India company tea a monopoly -
The Boston Tea Party
the colonist were angry from all the tax and stuff so they went to a British ship and threw out all the tea, the British because it just came from England and they was a lot of money for that tea -
The Quebec Act
It was passed by the british parliament It gave the french canadians religious freedom and restored the french form of civil law -
The Boston Port Act
The act was meant to force boston into paying for tea dumped the colonist had to pay the tea that was dumped during the boston party -
The Edenton Tea Party
Penelope Barker organized an alliance wholeheartedly supporting the American cause against taxation without representation with 50 women in Edenton,NC -
1st continental congress
it was a meeting of the 12 out of the 13 who meet at Carpenters Hall in Philadelphia Pennsylvania early in the American Revolution -
ride of Paul Revere
He warned everyone the British were coming so the colonist were getting ready to leave so nothing happens and when the British got there they were surprised because there was none there -
The Shot Heard Around The World
it was the shot that started the war it was shot by the Colonist they do not know exactly who it was but the who fired the shot caused a bad and long war both the British and colonist -
Common Sense
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine about the Grtitsh Goverment Common Sense challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy -
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 Pennsylvania -
The Declaration Of Independence
4 of July wasn't the day that the Continental Congress decided to declare independence (they did that on July 2, 1776). It wasn't the day we started the American Revolution either (that had happened back in April 1775) -
Articles of Confederation
The Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation, the first constitution of the United States
