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Sugar Act
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. -
Currency Act
Parliament passed the Currency Act, effectively assuming control of the colonial currency system. The act prohibited the issue of any new bills and the reissue of existing currency. -
Stamp Act
required colonist 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. -
Quartering Act
required the colonist to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies. If the barracks were too small to house all the soldiers, then localities were to accommodate the soldiers in local inns, livery stables, ale houses, victualling houses, and the houses of sellers of wine. -
Townshend Act
Townshend Acts imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies. Townshend hoped the acts would defray imperial expenses in the colonies, but many Americans viewed the taxation as an abuse of power. -
Boston Massacre
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Boston Tea Party
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Tea Act
Granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were passed in 1774 to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party. There were three major acts involved that angered the colonists. 1) Boston Port Bill 2) Administration of Justice Act 3) Massachusetts Government Act -
1st Continental Congress Meet
56 delegates from every colony except Georgia, begin the Draft for the Rights of man and grievances. -
Lexington and Concord
Minutemen from Lexington, Concord and the surrounding areas gathered up to 400 men to drive the British regulars back.
British won Lexington; Colonist won Concord and overall battle.