Stamp Act

By bohdman
  • 1765 BCE

    sons of liberty

    rallied support for colonial resistance through the use of petitions, assemblies, and propaganda, and they sometimes resorted to violence against British officials
  • 1764 BCE

    sugar act

    Act cut the duty on foreign molasses from 6 to 3 pence per gallon, retained a high duty on foreign refined sugar, and prohibited the importation of all foreign rum

  • Stamp Act

    This policy effectively ended after the French and Indian War in 1763, when the British made the decision to reinforce the Navigation Acts

  • Townshend Acts

    initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea

  • Boston Massacre

    A clash between British troops and townspeople in Boston in 1770, before the Revolutionary Wa

  • Boston Tea Party

    a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts

  • Intolerable Acts

    the Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act, and the Quartering Act

  • First Continental Congress

    formally declared that colonists should have the same rights as Englishmen

  • Second Continental Congress

    he governing body by which the American colonial governments coordinated their resistance to British rule during the first two years of the American Revolution.

  • Olive Branch Petition

    to be sent to the King as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared