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The Proclamation Line of 1763 was a British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide. Decreed on October 7, 1763, the Proclamation Line prohibited Anglo-American colonists from settling on lands acquired from the French following the French and Indian War. The Americans, who looked at the new land as an opportunity for settlement without the interference of the British government, resented the terms of the proclamation.

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On April 5, 1764, Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act (1733), which was about to expire. Under the Molasses Act colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses. But because of corruption, they mostly evaded the taxes and undercut the intention of the tax — that the English product would be cheaper than that from the French West Indies.The colonies have already been mired in a post-war depression. The Sugar Act worsens their trade balance just as Grenville and Parliament throw another punch. Henceforth, provincial governments are not allowed to issue their own paper currency.

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On March 22, 1765, the British Parliament passed the “Stamp Act” to help pay for British troops stationed in the colonies during the Seven Years’ War. The act required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards. It was a direct tax imposed by the British government without the approval of the colonial legislatures and was payable in hard-to-obtain British sterling, rather than colonial currency. The Stamp Act intensified colonial hostility toward the British and was a pivotal development on the road to the American Revolution.

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On March 24, 1765, Parliament passes the Quartering Act, outlining the locations and conditions in which British soldiers are to find room and board in the American colonies. This new act allowed royal governors, rather than colonial legislatures, to find homes and buildings to quarter or house British soldiers. This only further enraged the colonists by having what appeared to be foreign soldiers boarded in American cities and taking away their authority to keep the soldiers distant.

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On June 29, 1767, Parliament passed the Townshend Act. Because the British still neede money, but they needed a way to tax the colonies "without offense" so they passed the Townshend Act.
With the Townshend Act, new duties were placed on imports of glass,lead,paper and tea to the Colonies from Great Britain. The revenue used from these duties would be used to pay for the colonial governors and judges.
In response to the new taxes, the colonies again decided to discourage the purchase of British imports. The resentment over the act divided American colonist into patriots and loyalist, the subsequent boycotts and protests forced the British government to send and quarter more troops in American cities.

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Late in the afternoon of March 5,1770, British sentries guarding the Boston Customs House shot into the crowd of civilians , killing three men and injuring eight, two of them mortally. Surrounded by jeering Bostonians slinging hardpacked snowballs, the small group of soldiers lost control when one of their number was struck. The soldiers fired despite explicit orders to the contrary.
The Boston Massacre occurred when the British troops stationed in Boston came to blow against the colonists. The colonists were angry at the British occupation and took their anger out on the troops.
The Boston Massacre reflected growing tension between Great Britain and its American colonies. Burdened by debt the British government attempted to exercise greater control over the colonies while simultaneously increasing revenues. The Boston Massacre helped galvanize Boston and the colonies against their mother country.

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The Tea Act, passed by parliament on May 10,1773, granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies.
Prior to the Tea Act, the British East India Company Tea war required to exclusively sell it's tea at auction in London. It required them to pay tax per pound of tea sold which added financial burdens, but the Act aborted this restriction and and granted them a license to export their tea to the American colonies.
The Act received boycott on tea and inspired direct resistance not seen since the Stamp Act. The act also made allies of merchants and patriot groups like the Sons of liberty. Patriot mobs intimidated the company's agents into resigning their commissions.

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The Boston Tea Party took place on the winter night of Thursday, December 16, 1773. According to eyewitnesses testimonies, the Boston Tea Party occurred between the hours of 7:00 and 10:00 pm and lasted for approximately three hours.  A compelled group of Sons of Liberty disguised themselves as Mohawk Indians, boarded three ships moored in Boston Harbor, and destroyed over 92,000 pounds of British East India Company tea.
The Boston Tea Party happen as a result of "taxation without representation", it was a direct response to the British taxation in North American Colonies.
As a result the British shut down Boston Harbor until all of the 340 chests of British East India Company tea were paid for, and they imposed even more stringent policies in the colonies.

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Parliament passed the bill on March 31, 1774, and King George III gave it royal assent on May 20th. The Act authorized the Royal Navy to blockade the Boston Harbor because "the commerce of his majesty's subjects cannot be safely carried there".
As a result the British shut down Boston Harbor until all of the 340 chests of British East India Company tea were paid for, and they imposed even more stringent policies in the colonies. The Intolerable Acts outraged and unified the American colonists even more against British rule.
The American colonist responded with protest and coordinated resistance .

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The First Continental Congress convened in Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, between September 5 and October 26, 1774. Delegates from twelve of Britain's thirteen American colonies met and discussed America's future under growing British aggression.
The Fist Continental Congress formed in response to the British Parliament's passage of the Intolerable Act, which aimed to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party.
In the end the First Continental Congress passed and signed the Continental Association in its Declaration and Resolves, which called for boycott of British goods to take effort in December 1774.

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The Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, the famous 'shot heard round the world', marked the start of the American war of Independence. Politically disastrous for the British, it persuaded many Americans to take up arms and support the cause of independence.
When Boston's Harbor was shut down until the colonist paid for the damages there was military presence there, and soon after, the British Parliament declared that Massachusetts was in open rebellion.
Many colonist were convinced that their economic prosperity and liberty were at stake, so they gradually took over the local militias and started arming drillings.
The British marched into Lexington and Concord intending to suppress the possibility of rebellion by seizing their weapons from the colonist. Insted, their actions sparked the first battle of the Revolutionary War. The colonists intricate alarm system summoned local militia companies, enabling them to successfully counter the British threat.