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Sugar Act
-tax on sugar and molasses imported from French and Spanish West Indies
-Northern Merchants disliked it and thought it would hurt the rum industry. -
Stamp Act
- Parliament required a government tax stamp on all legal documents such as newspapers, contracts, and playing cards
- this was a bad idea and colonists protested the law openly
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Quartering Act
- colonists must find living space for British soliders stationed in America.
- Colonists saw this as another attack on their rights
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Boston Massacre
-workers were taunting British soliders and soliders fired at the crowd
-5 people died and were freed except for 2 who had light punishment
-troops moved out of boston -
Tea Act
The Tea Act was designed to help a struggling British company reduce smuggling. This made East India Company tea actually cheaper than the smuffled tea. This led to the Boston Tea party. -
Boston Tea Party
Samuel Adams and 70 others dumped chests of tea into the harbor after parliament passed the Tea Act. The loss of valuable cargo infuriated British Officials and brought more repressive laws. -
Intolerable Acts
This was a series of laws to pushish rebellious colonists to pay for the Boston Tea Party. -
Boston Port Act
The British Parliament closed the Boston Harbor after the Boston Tea Party. -
Administration of Justice Act
-suspended the right of self-government in the Massachusetts colony and alllowed British to send rebellious colonists for trial in other colonies by British judge
- gave more causes to colonists to rebel -
Massachusetts Government Act
-revoked the power, number of town meetings that a community might hold, and prohibited the election of town officials.
-gave the colonists more causes to rebel against the British Parliament -
Quebec Act
-change the government in the province of Quebec
-gave complete religious freedom and restored civil law of the French Canadians -
First Continental Congress
It was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies and the delagates agreed that each colony would have 1 vote dispite size. -
Paul Revere
-warned the people that the king wanted to take action against the colonists
-caused less casualities -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
-War began when King George III wanted to take action against the colonists and arrest colonial leaders
-more British casualities than colonial -
Battle of Bunker Hill
-British defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill
- colonial forces inflicted great casualties against the enemy, and provided them a confidence boost.
