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sugar act
The Sugar Act was a revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain. The preamble to the act stated: -
Stamp Act
This was a direct tax imposed by the British Parliament specifically on the colonies of British America. It required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London -
The Boston Massacre
In the Boston Massacre, British Army soldiers killed five civilian men. British troops had been stationed in Boston, capital of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a direct action by colonists in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the British government and the monopolistic East India Company that controlled all the tea imported into the colonies. -
The Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts or the Coercive Acts are names used to describe a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Britain's colonies in North America. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen North American colonies that met at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
Second Continental Congress
It was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
The Battles of Lexington and Concord
These battles were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. They were fought in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy and Cambridge, near Boston. -
Battle of Bunker Hill
This battle mostly on and around Breed's Hill, during the Siege of Boston early in the American Revolutionary War. -
Olive Branch Petition
The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by the Continental Congress in July 1775 in an attempt to avoid a full-blown war with Great Britain. -
Common Sense
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine. It was first published anonymously during the American Revolution. -
Battle of New York
The British set forth to subdue the colonies. They began the effort by recapturing New York.