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Prevented settling west of the Appalachians.
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Act that lowered taxes on sugar to try to get the colonists to pay the tax instead of smuggling.
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Put tax on almost all printed material by requiring it to have a stamp.
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Put tax on imported material like glass, tea, and paper. These taxes led to boycotts throughout the colonies.
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British soldiers under attack by angry mob. They fired into the crowd killing five colonists.
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Lessened tax on tea, and gave near total control of the tea market in the colonies to the East India Trading Company.
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Sons of Liberty dumped tea into ocean in an act of civil disobedience.
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Set of laws made to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party.
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Organized a government in Quebec. Added the Ohio River Valley to Quebec.
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Leaders from all the colonies except Georgia met and voted. They voted to repeal the Intolerable acts and continue with boycotts.
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British went to burn colonial militias' weapons, they were met by minute men at Lexington and fiught their way through to the North Bridge were another group of minute men who caused them heavy losses and sent them back to Boston.
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Colonial Militias surrounded Boston and forced British troops to retreat by sea.
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Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold led troops to Ft. Ticondergo. They took the British by suprise and the British soon surrendered.
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William Prescott and his militia held off redcoats on Breeds hill until the ran out of ammo and had to retreat.
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Written by Jefferson and signed by members of the Second Continental Congress. Was an act of treason against Britain.
