1765 - Stamp Act

1765 - Quartering Act

1765 - Sons of Liberty

1767 - Townshend Acts

177-Boston Massacre

1773 -Boston tea party

British Parliament passed the Stamp Act to help replenish theirfinancesafter the costly Seven Years'Warwith France. Part of the revenue from the Stamp Act would be used to maintain several regiments of British soldiers in North America to maintain peace between Native Americans and the colonists.

The Quartering Act was passed primarily in response to greatly increased empire defense costs in America following the French and IndianWarand Pontiac'sWar.

TheSons of Libertywas most likely organized in the summer of 1765 as a means to protest the passing of the Stamp Act of 1765. Their motto was, “No taxation without representation.” The Bostonians Paying the Excise-man, or Tarring and Feathering, 1774.

The British wanted to get the colonies to pay for themselves. TheTownshend Actswere specifically to pay for the salaries of officials such as governors and judges. The British thought that the colonists would be okay with taxes on imports.

Tensionsbeganto grow, and inBostonin February 1770 a patriot mob attacked a British loyalist, who fired a gun at them, killing a boy. In the ensuing days brawls between colonists and British soldiers eventually culminated in theBoston Massacre

theBoston Tea Partyhappened as a result of “taxation without representation”, yet thecauseis more complex than that. The American colonists believed Britain was unfairly taxing them to pay for expenses incurred during the French and Indian War.