1765

- Tax on newspapers and other documents

- Made colonists angry!

- Formed Sons of Liberty to Protest

1766

- Tax on glass, paint, lead, paper, and tea

- Colonists began to call for “NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!”

1770

- Colonists began throwing snowballs at a British soldier

- Crowd gathered and began fighting

- 5 colonists shot and killed

1773

- Colonists only allowed to buy tea

from British East India Company

- Had to pay tax on tea

- Hurt businesses in the colonies

December 1773

- Boston Harbor

- Sons of Liberty dressed as Indians

- Dumped British tea in the water

- Made king of England very angry

1774

- Laws made to punish colonies for the Boston Tea Party

- Closed the port of Boston

- More British soldiers sent to colonies

- Colonists forced to give soldiers a place to live

1775

- First battles of the American Revolution

- “The shot heard around the world”

- Minutemen = American citizens ready to fight at a moment’s notice

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