Events Leading Up to the Revolutionary War

This act restricted American trade through only allowing British citizens to trade and only British ships could transport imported and exported goods to other places. This caused the American colonists to start smuggling goods.

This war was fought between the British, the French, and the Indians of North America. The British won and got to keep most of Canada and parts of the New World.

This Act put a 3-cent-tax on the foreign sugar and increased taxes on coffee, indigo, and certain kinds of wine.

This act was to give British troops housing whenever they needed. You were not allowed to say you didn't have any room for them unless you didn't.

This Act put a tax on newspapers, pamphlets, and other public and legal documents.

This act was a gesture of British Parliament defending its authority to pass laws on the colonies, even though they lacked any representation.

These were a series of acts named after Charles Townshend. They put taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea. Most of these were repealed except for the tax on tea.

British troops shot 5 colonists in the street of Boston. There was a dispute over what actually happened. It appeared that the colonists had annoyed the troops which caused them to shoot.

Parliament tried to bail out the East India Company. The colonists revolted and refused to buy tea. The British lowered the price of tea but the colonists still would not buy it.

The Sons of Liberty boarded British ships and dumped 342 whole crates of tea into the ocean.