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- The Tea Act 1773
- Boston Tea Party 1773
- Intolerable Acts 1174
- British Parliament passed a series of laws called the Townshend Acts. These acts put a tax on many popular imports to America, such as glass, lead, paper, and tea.
- First Continental Congress 1774
- The British government began taxing the colonists. Imports of products such as sugar, coffee, and paper. Many colonists felt the taxes were unfair because the English Bill of Rights stated that citizens could not be taxed without having their own representatives.
- Declarations and Resolves 1774
- Upset with high taxes on tea, colonists dumped more than 300 chests of tea into Boston Harbor. All of it belonging to the British East India Company. This move by the colonists outraged Parliament, which then passed a series of acts known in England as the Coercive Acts.
- Battles of Lexington and Concord 1775
- The First Continental Congress, held in Philadelphia in the fall of 1774, was a meeting of political leaders in the colonies. It was held in response to the colonists anger at British policies, especially the Intolerable Acts. Representatives from all 13 colonies except Georgia attended the First Continental Congress.
- The Declaration and Resolves was a document issued in 1774. First Continental Congress, a meeting of representatives from 12 of the 13 colonies. They were responding to the Intolerable Acts that Great Britain had passed earlier that year. The Intolerable Acts were a series of laws that punished colonists in Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party.
- The battles of Lexington and Concord marked the official start of the American Revolutionary War. They occurred on April 19, 1775, The British tried to seize American military supplies in Concord. During this ride, Paul Revere warned the colonists of the approaching British troops. By the time the British arrived at Lexington, the colonists had troops ready for a standoff.
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