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It forbade settlers from settling past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.
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Shadow governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of the American Revolution.
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Required colonists to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed.
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This required the colonies to provide barracks and supplies to British troops.
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Repealed the Stamp Act.
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Raise revenue in the colonies to pay the salaries of governors and judges so that they would remain loyal to Great Britain and to create a more effective means of enforcing compliance with trade regulations.
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British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others.
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Reduced the massive surplus of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive.
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Punished the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor.
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A political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. The demonstrators, some disguised as American Indians, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company.
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British troops, searching for ammunition stockpiles in Lexington and Concord, engaged in a brief battle with local minutemen on the North Bridge in Concord.
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A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain.
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Explained to foreign nations why the colonies had chosen to separate themselves from Great Britain.
