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The Sugar Act
The Sugar Act took place on April 5, 1764. The Sugar Act is also know as the American Revenue Act. The Sugar Act reduced the amount of tax that colonists had to pay on molasses by half but increased the enforcement of the law. The Sugar Act was passed by Parliament in April of 1764. The act placed a tax on sugar and molasses important to the colonies. -
The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act took place in March 22, 1765. The Stamp Act of 1765 was passed by the British Parliament in 1756 was the first direct tax imposed on the British colonies in North America. The goal of the tax on printed material including newspaper, magazines, legal documents, insurance policies and many other types of paper materials was to help finance for the British troops in the colonies. The issue of taxation and representation raised by the stamp act strained relations with the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre took place on March 5, 1770. In Boston, a small British army detachment that was threatened by the mob harassment opened fire and killed five people, this was called the Boston Massacre. The Boston Massacre is to be consider by many of the historians to be the very first battle of the Revolutionary war. The British soldiers fired into the crowd killing three people instantly. -
Burning of the Gaspee
The Burning Of The Gaspee took place on June 10, 1774. The U.S colonial history act of the open civil defiance of British authority when Rhode Islander boarded and sank the revenue cutter Gaspee in Narragansett Bay. -
The Tea Act
The Tea Act took place on May 10, 1773. The Tea Act of 1773 was one of the several measure imposed on the American colonists. The heavily indebted British government in the decade leading up to the American Revolutionary War. Benjamin Franklin was out of several people who suggest the company be allowed to export their tea. -
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party took place on December 16, 1773. The Boston Tea Party started because the British passed a tea act that said colonies could only buy tea that came from the east of India and that was very expensive. George Washington condemned the Boston Tea Party. -
The Intolerable Act
The Intolerable Act took place on June 1, 1774. It was the very first law that was passed, it closed the Boston Port until the colonies had paid for all the tea they had destroyed. The Intolerable Act was also called the Coercive Act.
