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Stamp Act
A tax on paper and documents imposed by British on colonists. -
Quartering act
British act saying colonists had to provide houses and food for soldiers. -
tea act
a tax on tea -
boston tea party
the Boston tea party was a result of the British taxing tea. In response to this action, Samuel Adams and his followers dumped the tea into the Boston harbor, which led to the Coercive Acts in 1774 and brought them closer to war. -
Bunker Hill
British defeated colonists in Massachusetts. -
Declaration of Independence
July 4th 1776 statement declaring freedom of colonists from grate Britain. -
Yorktown
the last battle of the Revolutionary War. -
the boston masscre
the colonists got mad because the British where there so that protested and during it the British killed five and wounded six men.