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Parliament passed the law to tax sugar and molasses.
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Tax placed on legal documents, newspapers, pamphlets, and playing cards.
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British soldiers killed five men who were taunting them and the first to die is Crispus Attucks.
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The East India Company was now allowed to sell tea directly to the colonists.
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Colonists disgusied as natives snuck onto three ships and dumped all of the tea.
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800 Redcoats were sent to Lexington and Concord to get the weopons hidden there and capture traitors. The American colonists were warned by Paul Reveere and others and were able to move the weopons and prepare to fight.
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The colonists fortified Breeds hill instead of Bunker Hill and fought of two attacks from the British before losing the third.
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General Howe defeated Washington and forced him to retreat to New Jersy.
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The continetal congress finally agrees to sign the Declaration to send to the king.
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The soldiers marched through the snow and had their first great victory when they attacked th Hessian while they were sleeping.
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Followed the Battle of Trenton and Washington rallied the troops and forced the British out.
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The greatest victory yet and the turning point in the revolution because after we won France and Spain joined the war to help us.
