The Problem of Empire Timeline

The first tax on the American colonist. This Act was made by the British Parliament and was to raise revenue from colonial customs services. Boston leaders found out it was from an external force and said the Act was violating the British Privilege.

The new tax was passed by British Parliament. This Act made all the colonist to pay tax of printed paper. The money gained by the Stamp Act was to help defend and protect the colonist.

The Quartering Act was to have British soldiers stationed in the American Colonies. The colonist saw the Quartering Act as another way to tax the colonist. Some of the colonist saw troops stationed in the colonies to enforce Parliaments.

Sons of Liberty was an underground organization that used violence and intimation. They were threatening British agents forcing them to resign and made American merchants stop ordering from British trade goods.

Charles Townshed was a member of the Board of Trade. He was not sympathetic toward America like William Pitt. Townshed agreed with and supported the Stamp Act. He also promised to find a new source of revenue in America.

In February 1768, the Massachusetts assembly condemned the Townshed Act, and Boston and New York merchants began a new boycott on British goods. American women wee normally excluded from public affairs but it became crucial to the non-importation movement.

A small port town on a tiny peninsula, the troops numbered 10 percent of the local population. This really got the colonist mad when a group of nine British soldiers shot into a crowd and killed 5 towns people.

Sons of Liberty prevented a tea shipment. They got on three different ships and disguised themselves as Indians and broke open 342 chests of tea and threw it into the harbor. The tea valued 10 thousand E. The King was outraged and Parliament passed 4 Coercive Acts.

The Third American Boycott was when 80 percent of male heads of families and a number of single women signed a "Solemn League and Covenant" in Massachusetts. In some farms and other small towns the men blacked their faces and wore blankets and threatened shopkeepers that sold rum, molasses, and sugar.

Patriot leaders gathered in Massachusetts, a majority in the congress still hoped for reconciliation. 3,000 British troops attacked American fortifications on Breed's Hill and Bunker overlooking Boston.