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Navigation Laws
Prime Minister George Grenville enforced these laws to impose restriction on the idea of colonial trade. -
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Road to Revolution
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Sugar Act
The sugar act was the first law passed by Parliament. The main idea was to raise revenue for the crown from colonies. This meant there was increased duty on sugar from the West Indies. -
Stamp Tax
The point of this act was to raise revenue in supporting the new military force. Every document or newspaper printed had a tax on them. Bills of sale for about 50 trade items had required stamps on them. -
Quartering Act
A requirement that colonies need to provide food and quarters for British Soldiers. This was an act that angered colonists. -
Stamp Act Congress
The beginning of rights and grievances of colonists. The idea was that it pleaded the king and Parliament to repeal the repugnant legislation. -
Stamp Act Repealed
The Sons of Liberty and Daughters of Liberty took the law into their own hands. (A secret organization fighting against taxation and for liberty). They boycotted, started commotion, and made their voices heard. This would result with parliament repealing the Stamp Act. -
Townshend Acts
This act started a light import duty on supplies like glass, white leas, paper, paint, and tea. However, the colonists refused taxes without representation. -
Boston Massacre
A big clash/deadly riot on the streets of Boston. It started as a tiny brawl between a few American colonists and a British soldier, but eventually rose to be a “bloody slaughter.” The main cause was American colonists protesting against tax acts and laws. -
The Boston Tea Party
After tea was taxed, and Bostonians were angered by it, they decided to fight back. 100 of them boarded docked ships in England Disguised as Indians. They then smashed open 342 chests of tea and poured it into the harbor. This was as much as 18.5 million tea bags. -
Intolerable Acts
In response to the Boston Tea Party, Parliament passes the intolerable acts against colonists, especially British colonists. Things such as; the port was closed until the damages were paid for, there were new restrictions on town meetings, and there was a new quartering act. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress drew up a Declaration of Rights. It’s most important achievements were complete boycott of British goods : non importation, non exportation, and non consumption. -
Lexington and Concord / Start of the War
After Parliament rejected Congress’s idea, the road to war started to continue. In April, the British commander sent troops in Boston to Lexington and Concord to seize stores of gunpowder and to arrest Samuel Adams and John Hancock. Conflicts happened in both locations. Britain now had a war on its hands. The shots fired signaled that American Revolution begun and a new nation would be created.
