Timeline

  • Quartering Act

    Quartering Act
    This act let British troops live in houses of settlers.
  • Currency act

    Currency act
    An act that didn't let colonists not make their own money.
  • Stamp act

    Stamp act
    People had to pay taxes on paper.
  • Townshend acts

    Townshend acts
    An act that taxed British goods
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    when the British fired at civilians.
  • Boston tea party

    Boston tea party
    People threw tea crates into the sea.
  • Intolerable Act

    Intolerable Act
    Acts that the crown used to punish people in the Boston tea party.
  • First congressional congress

    First congressional congress
    The colonies got together and tried to make the colonies a country but Georgia did not come.
  • Lexington and concord

    Lexington and concord
    The British went to Lexington to capture Sam Adams and John Hancock, and they also went to Concord to get gunpowder.
  • sugar and molasses act

    sugar and molasses act
    an act that put taxes on imported sugar.