Events Leading to The American Revolution

The first in a series of taxes by the British Parliament. This tax raised taxes on rum and required that all exports be sent to Great Britain,

• Sugar Act

• Townsend Acts

• Stamp Act

• Tea Acts

The king sent troops to the colonies to prove he had authority and to enforce the taxes.

• Battle of Lexington & Concord

• British troops arrive in Boston

• Boston Massacre

• Boston Tea Party

Colonists had to purchase tea from the East India Company and they also taxed the tea.

• Tea Acts

• Stamp Act

• Intolerable Acts

• Sugar Act

These were more acts that the colonists thought were "intolerable" (they just could not handle them!). They included the Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, a new Quartering Act, and others.

• Sugar Act

• Tea Act

• Stamp Act

• Intolerable Acts

When angry colonists threw rocks at British soldiers in Boston and a soldier's musket (gun) accidentally fired, there was chaos! Five colonists were killed and six were wounded.

• Tea Acts

• Boston Massacre

• Boston Tea Party

• Stamp Act

Colonies sent representatives to Philadelphia to oppose the Intolerable Acts.

• First Continental Congress

• Stamp Act

• Boston Tea Party

• Intolerable Acts

Acts that placed taxes on items that the colonist would only legally buy from Britain (paper, tea, glass, lead, etc.).

• Stamp Act

• Sugar Act

• Quartering Act

• Townsend Acts

A tax put on the colonists in America. It was a tax on all legal documents, publications, and playing cards.

• Stamp Act

• Sugar Act

• Intolerable Acts

• Quartering Act

All the colonies had to house (quarter) British soldiers in public buildings or in their private homes when the army needed it.

• Quartering Act

• Stamp Act

• Sugar Act

• Tea Acts

The Sons of Liberty dressed up as Native Americans and dumped an entire load of tea into the Boston Harbor.

• Battle of Lexington & Concord

• Boston Massacre

• Boston Tea Party

• British Troops arrive in Boston