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April 5, 1764
The earlier Molasses Act of 1733, which had imposed a tax of six pence per gallon of molasses, had never been effectively collected due to colonial resistance and evasion.

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March 22, 1765
The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.

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May 3, 1765
outlining the locations and conditions in which British soldiers are to find room and board in the American colonies.

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October 7, 1765

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March 18, 1766
It stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain.

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June 15, 1767
They were designed to collect revenue from the colonists in America by putting customs duties on imports of glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea.

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March 5, 1770
British troops in the Massachusetts Bay Colony were there to stop demonstrations against the Townshend Acts and keep order, but instead they provoked outrage

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May 10, 1773
The passing of the Tea Act imposed no new taxes on the American colonies.

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December 16, 1773
took place because the colonists did not want to have to pay taxes on the British tea.

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March 24' 1774
were the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party.

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September 5,  1776
delegates from each of the 13 colonies except for Georgia (which was fighting a Native-American uprising and was dependent on the British for military supplies) met in Philadelphia as the First Continental Congress to organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts.

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April 19, 1775
kicked off the American Revolutionary War (1775-83). Tensions had been building for many years between residents of the 13 American colonies and the British authorities, particularly in Massachusetts.