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The Sugar Act is also called Plantation Act or Revenue Act. It was British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies. It was also meant to provide increased revenues to fund enlarged British Empire responsibilities following the French and Indian War. The Sugar Act is actually a reinvigoration of the largely ineffective Molasses Act of 1733. This act is one of many legislations meant to tax American citizens.

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The Stamp Act imposed a direct tax on the colonists goods. The act stated that, starting in the fall of 1765, legal documents and printed materials must have a tax stamp. The tax stamp was provided by commissioned distributors who would collect the tax in exchange for the stamp. The law applied to wills, deeds, newspapers, pamphlets and even playing cards and dice. The colonist were not pleased with this at all.

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The Townshend Act was a series of measures that taxed goods imported to colonist in 1767. American colonist had no representation in the British Parliament. This caused the Americans to view this as abuse of power. Britain sent troops to America to enforce these new and unpopular laws. This heightened tensions between America and Britain.

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The Boston Massacre was a riot that occurred on March 5, 1770, on King Street in Boston. It began as a street brawl between American colonists and a lone British soldier. This quickly escalated to a chaotic, bloody slaughter. In total five American colonist were killed. The conflict energized anti-British sentiment and paved the way for the American Revolution.

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The Boston Tea Party was a protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists were angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation.” Britain forcefully imported 342 unwanted chest of tea. American colonist dumped these 342 chests of tea into the harbor. The event was the first major act of defiance to British rule over the colonists. It showed Great Britain that Americans wouldn’t take taxation without doing something.

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The Coercive Acts, also known as the Intolerable Acts, were a series of four acts established by the British government. The legislation was enacted to try to punish the Americans for the Boston Tea Party. The four acts are: the Boston Port Act, which closed the port of Boston until damages from the Boston Tea Party were paid: the Massachusetts Government Act, which restricted Massachusetts; democratic town meetings and turned the governor’s council into an appointed body: the Administration of Justice Act, which made British officials immune to criminal prosecution in Massachusetts: and the Quartering Act, which required colonists to house and quarter British troops on demand, including in their private homes as a last resort.

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From 1774 to 1783, the Continental Congress served as the government of the 13 American colonies. The First Continental Congress was comprised of delegates from the colonies. Side note, this is a lot like the modern day congress with representatives from each state. The delegates met in 1774 in reaction to the Coercive Acts (previously mentioned). The Second Continental Congress was formed in 1775, a year later.

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Start of the American Revolution 4/19/1775

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Start of the American Revolution 4/19/1775

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The Revolutionary War lasted from 1775 to 1783. It is also known as the American Revolution, which arose from growing tensions between residents of Great Britain’s 13 North American colonies and the colonial government, which represented the British crown. Skirmishes between British troops and colonial militiamen in Lexington and Concord in April 1775 kicked off the armed conflict. By the following summer, the rebels were waging a full-scale war for their independence. The war eventually ended in the American's independence.

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From 1774 to 1789, the Continental Congress served as the government of the 13 American colonies and later the United States. In 1775, the Second Continental Congress convened after the American Revolutionary War (1775-83) had already begun. In 1776, it took the momentous step of declaring America’s independence from Britain.  Five years later, the Congress ratified the first national constitution, the Articles of Confederation, under which the country would be governed until 1789, when it was replaced by the current U.S. Constitution.

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By June 1776, with the Revolutionary War in full swing. A growing majority of the colonists had come to favor independence from Britain. On July 4, the Continental Congress voted to adopt the Declaration of independence. The declaration of independence was drafted by a five-man committee including Franklin and John Adams but written mainly by Jefferson. The declaration of independence declared America's independence from Britain.