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The Stamp Act
In 1765, Great Britain passed the Stamp Act, which meant that colonists had to pay taxes for all paper products. This mainly effected people like newspaper owners, and lawyers, since they were the people who used the most people. This was a bad move on the part of the British, because you do NOT want to make lawyers and the people who own newspaper companies mad. This was just the beginning of the Revolution.
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The Boston Massacre
One of the deadliest snowball fights in history, the Boston Massacre on March 5th, 1770, started as a harmless snowball fight. It quickly escalated into a brawl between colonists and soldiers, and eventually several colonists were shot by angry and frightened British soldiers.
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The Tea Act
In 1773, Great Britain passed an act to tax all tea coming into the colonies. They wanted to make tea not even worth smuggling, and to convince colonists to buy Company tea, since the British were losing a lot of money to Dutch tea. At the time, 86% of all tea the colonists drank was smuggled Dutch tea.
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The Boston Tea Party
On the night of December 16, 1773, Bostonians dressed as native Americans snuck onto the three British merchant ships, and dumped all of the cargo (tea) overboard into the Boston harbor. The Boston Tea Party was in retaliation over the Tea Act that was passed in May of that year.
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The Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts was a series of laws passed by Great Britain in 1774, to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party. The acts took away Massachusetts' right to self-govern, and was meant to be an example to all the other colonies: mess with the British, and you will regret it. Instead, all it did was just make the colonists mad, adding more fuel to the fire of the Revolution.
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