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The Sugar Act
1764 Act that put a three-cent tax on foreign refined sugar and increased taxes on coffee, indigo, and certain kinds of wine. It banned the use of drinking rum and French wines. These taxes affected only a certain part of the population, -
Stamp Act of 1765
Colonial newspapers, legal documents, and many other printed materials had to be stamped to show a tax was paid. Colonists were angry and came up with the phrase " no taxation without representation" . The Stamp Act was then repealed in 1766. -
Townshend Acts
Series of 1767 laws named for Charles Townshend, these laws placed new taxes on glass, led, paints, paper, and tea. Colonists reaction to these taxes were the same as to the Sugar Act and the Stamp Act, and Britain eventually repealed all the taxes except the one on tea. -
No taxation without representation
Many colonists boycotted British goods. As a result, the Stamp Act was repealed ( not enforced anymore ) in 1766. No taxation without representation had really meant "No taxation by Parliament. No representation in Parliament. Let us run our own affairs." -
the Boston Massacre
Angry colonists started calling themselves Patriots ( those who whent agasint the British ). There was a mini riot between colonists and british soldiers which led to 5 of the colonists being killed. The colonists were unarmed and the British were. One of the colonists decided to throw snow and thats when the British pulled out there clubs. -
Boston Tea Party
Patriots dressed up as Native Americans to hide there identities. They dumped 342 chests of tea overboard and took off. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were laws that were really punishments that King George put on the colonies, He did this because he wanted the colinsts to be punished for dumping there tea into the harbor at the Boston Tea Party. People protested against these acts but King George thought that they should submit to those laws. -
Battle of Lexington & Concord
The first shots starting the revolution were fired in Lexington, Massachusettes. On April 18, 1775 British general Gage sent 700 soldiers to destroy the weapons colonists had stored in the town of Concord. The had also planned to arrest Samuel Adams and John Hancock. -
" Common Sense " By Thomas Paine
Published in 1776, Common Sense challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy. The plain language that Paine used spoke to the common people of America and was the first work to openly ask for independence from Great Britain. Common Sense was signed " Written By A Englishman " and became a huge success. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was a document that Thomas Jefferson had written between the dates of June 11 until June 28, 1776. The Continental Congress slowly but surely accepted the idea of seperation. The reasons for breaking with Britian are listed in this Declaretion of independence. And on July 4, 1176 the congress accepted the Declaration of Independence. To this current day we still celebrate 4th of July. And we always will.
