Events
Sugar Act (1764)
Also known as the American Revenue Act,
the sugar in the colonies was taxed
and the molasses tax was decreased.
(Repealed in 1766)Currency Act (1764)
The British ban on printing colonial money
in order to alleviate British creditors' fears
of being payed in the depreciated currency
of the colonistsStamp Act (1765)
This law required certain printed
materials including newspapers
in America be on paper produced
in Brittan and stamped with a
revenue stamp.Quartering Act (1765)
Colonists were required to provide
food and shelter to British soldiers
against their will.Townsend Acts (1767)
Levied taxes on colonial imports of glass,
lead, paint, paper, and tea. Vice admiralty
courts were also re-organized at Halifax,
Boston, Philadelphia, and Charleston.Declaratory Act (1766)
After putting the stamp act to rest,
parliament passed this law in order
to maintain an image of having control
over the colonies. This law states that
Parliament had the full right to make
all laws for colonists.Boston Massacre (1770)
A mob surrounds a detached British
infantry unit in Boston, and taunts and
jeers at them, eventually threatening
their lives. In retaliation, the British
soldiers fire a volley off into the crowd.
5 colonists were killed.Tea Act (1773)
Designed to aid the floundering
East India Company and in
fact made tea cheaper. It was an
effort to garner support for
previous taxes (Gave East
India Company a monopoly on tea)Boston Tea Party (1773)
Sixteen men dressed as Mohawk
Indians board three ships in Boston
Harbor, carrying mainly tea, and
dump their contents in the HarborIntolerable Acts (1774)
acts instituted by the British as punishment for
the Boston Tea Party; closed Boston Harbor
until debt could be repaid, dissolved all town
meetings in MA, and appointed British as all
government officialsFirst Continental Congress (1774)
Declaration of American Rights,
urged MA to arm for defense,
adopted the Continental Association
to boycott British goodsPaul Revere Rides (1775)
Alerted the colonists that the British were
coming before Lexington and Concord.
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