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Road to the American Revolution

By kskobel

  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act
    Act by Parliament to lower tax on molasses in the American colonies so the colonists would buy British and not smuggle from French and Spanish.

  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    Tax on printed paper in American colonies.

  • Declaratory Act

    Declaratory Act
    Declared that Parliament could tax the American colonies.

  • Townshend Acts

    Townshend Acts
    Taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea.

  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    Street fight between patriot mob and British soldiers in the streets of Boston, MA.

  • Tea Act

    Tea Act
    Tax on tea in American colonies. Only the British East India Company could sell tea in the colonies.

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    Colonists dressed as Indians boarded merchant ships in Boston Harbor and threw all the tea overboard.

  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts
    Harsh laws passed by Parliament to punish American colonists for protesting.

  • Lexington and Concord

    Lexington and Concord
    First battles of the American Revolution

  • Repeal Stamp Act

    Repeal Stamp Act
    Nullified the Stamp Act of 1765