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- Stamp act (October 7th, 1765)
- townshend acts (1767)
- TAX ONTEA
- Boston Tea Party (December 16, 1773)
- The stamp act was a way to impose a direct tax on the British colonies in America and required that materials be stamped.
- Intolerable acts (May 20, 1774)
- INTOLERABLE ACTS
- A series of measures passed by british parliment that taxed goods imported to the American colonies.
- Salutary Neglect (March 22, 1775)
- The Boston tea party was a political protest in response to the british parilments tax on tea by the sons of liberty. As a response, parliment passed the Intolerable acts which prevented sea trade to occur until colonists paid for the damanged tea.
- Common Sense (Jan 9th, 1776)
- A series of laws passed by the British parliament that aimed to punish the colonists for their defiance after the boston tea party.
- An unwritten Unofficial policy allowing North American colonies to be left on their own without British interference.
- Published by Thomas Paine, the pamphlet Common Sense was written in favor of American independance. Because it inspired Americans to see themselves as citizens of a seperate country rather than british colonists, this pamphlet played a big part in the start of the Revolution.
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