Leading up to the revolutionary war and the revolutionary war.
Was the beginning of open hostilities between the colonies and Great Britain.
Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act (1733), which was about to expire. Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses
The act prohibited the issue of any new bills and the reissue of existing currency.
Required colonists to provide shelter and food for the British Troops
Imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed.
This stated that Parliament made the laws, not the colonists.
Taxes on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, and tea were applied with the design of raising £40,000 a year for the administration of the colonies.
The merchants and the traders agreed not send for or import from Great Britain, either upon their own account, or upon commission.
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry.
Angry Bostonian's rebelled against British taxation and dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor.
Designed to secure Great Britain's jurisdictions over her American dominions. Boston Teas Act, Administration of Justice Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Quartering Act of 1774, Quebec Act
Met at Carpenter's Hall, also the seat of the Pennsylvania Congress. All of the colonies except Georgia sent delegates. These were elected by the people, by the colonial legislatures, or by the committees of correspondence of the respective colonies.
Patrick Henry's speech
Midnight ride that warned of the advancing British troops was only one of his revolutionary actions.
"The shot heard 'round the world." The start of the American Revolutionary War
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