The Quartering Acts

Colonist are required to give household items to British troops

Quartering Acts

Colonist are required to give household items to British troops

Townshend Acts

50+ people from 12 colonies boycott and send a letter to king George

Stamp act

every peice of paper was now a taxe to pay back for war and British protection

boston tea party 

Massachusetts patriots dressed as mhohawk Indians and dumped 342 chests of British tea into Boston Harbor in protest against the Tea Act.

The Boston massacre 

An incident in 1770 where British soldiers killed five colonial men, escalating tensions between Britain and American colonists.

proclamation of 1763

From king george in order to end the conflict between colonist and natives , colonist could NOT settle west of Appalachians

Intolerable acts

The king created laws to close the Boston harbor until the tea was payed off

First continental congress

Passed my Champagne Charlie, these taxes were placed in popular imported good like glass paper and paint and tea

treaty of Paris 

Signed at the end of the French and indian war 

colonies form militias

Patriots accept to fight and train, prepare