declaration of independance test

The stamp act date

Enacted 1765

Stamp act summary

Requires all printed materials to have a stamp.

Stamp act reason

Britain had a lot of war dept and thought the colonists should help

The stamps were purchased from Britain and generated revenue.

Stamp act response

Protests, boycotts, and groups like the sons of liberty

No taxation without representation

Parlement passed the law without colonial representation

Boston massacre date

March 5, 1770

Boston massecre what happened

A violent confrontation in which British soldiers fired into a crowd of protesting colonists and killed 5 people in Boston massechusets

Angry colonists confronted soldiers outside the customs house

Confusion and panic led the soldiers to fire

Boston massacre result

Fueled anti British feelings across America through propaganda and newspaper accounts

Boston tea party when

December 16, 1773

Boston tea party what

Patriots protested the tea act by throwing 340 chests of tea into Boston harbor

Organized by the sons of liberty

Some disguised themselves as Mohawk Indians

Boston tea party reason

The colonists were angry because the tea act hurt local merchants ability to compete with cheap east India company tea and proved that nothing was safe from British taxes

Boston tea party result

Britain closed Boston harbor

The intolerable acts date

1774

Intolerable acts what

Parlement shut down Boston harbor, reorganized the massachusetts government, allowed British officials to be tried in other colonies or Great Britain, forced colonists to feed and house soldiers, and gave the northern Midwest to Quebec and reorganized the Quebec government

They restricted colonists’ freedom and denied them what the colonists believed were basic rights

Intolerable acts reason

Attempted to quell colonist resistance and get them to accept parliamentary rule