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The stamp act (March 1765)
The new tax was forced on every American colonist and made them pay a tax on every piece of paper they used . Newspaper,license, legal documents, and even playing cards you had to pay tax for. -
The Townshend Acts (June-July 1767)
Was where multiple laws were passed by the British government onto the American colonies. They put down new taxes and took away parts of freedom including: New taxes on imports of paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea. -
The Boston Massacre (March 1770)
Which British solders shot and killed many people while being harassed by a mob in Boston. The event was heavily publicized by leading patriots such as Samuel Adams and Paul Revere. -
The Boston Tea Party (December 1773)
In which 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown from ship into the Boston harbor by American patriots disguise as Mohawk Indians. -
The Coercive Acts (March-June 1774)
Known as the Intolerable Acts in the American colonies, were a bunch of laws got passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord (April 1775)
They fought and kicked off the American Revolutionary war. Hundred of British troops marched from Boston nearby Concord in order to seize an arms cache. -
British attacks on coastal towns
British raids on American coastal towns. the British Navy bombarded and burned the town of Falmouth, Massachusetts.
