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Stamp Act
It was an act passed by Parliament to tax the colonists on every piece of printed paper they used. Some examples are legal documents, licenses, newspapers and even playing cards. -
Boston Massacre
It started as a fist fight between the colonists and British soldiers, but soon escalated into a bloody slaughter. In the fight five colonists died and three were injured. Martial law was imposed on the colonists as a result of this fight. -
Boston Tea Party
British colonists, including Sam Adams, dumped 352 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company, into the ocean. They did it because the colonists were angry at Britain for taxing them. -
Creation of the First Continental Congress
It was held in Philadelphia concerning the Intolerable Acts. All of the colonists that showed were Patriots. The plan was to boycott until the British stopped taxing them. -
Lexington and Concord
It was the first battle of the Revolutionary War fought in MA. British soldiers moved towards Lexington and Concord to take military supplies and arrest revisionists. Paul Revere warned the minutemen of this. -
Creation of the Second Continental Congress
It was a convention of delegates after the start of the Revolutionary War. It was called to help organize the war. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
The British defeated the colonists, but the British army lost a lot of people. The colonists, who were mainly minutemen, lost due to lack of ammunition. This event helped to spark the Revolutionary War. -
Olive Branch Petition
It was the final attempt by the colonists to avoid going to war with Britain. It was a document where the colonists, who were mainly Loyalists, pledged their loyalty to Britain. -
Writing and distribution of Common Sense
It was written by Thomas Paine and nearly 120,000 copies were in circulation by April. It had two main points: independence from England and the creation of a democratic republic. -
Declaration of Independence
The act in which the colonists told Britain that they were independent. It was written by the Continental Congress. There are fifty-six signatures on it including Thomas Jefferson who wrote it.
