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The Townshend Acts was an idea made by Charles Townshend. He believed that the colonists’ poor behavior made it more important to keep an army in the British colonies. In Parliament, Townshend was asked whether he would dare to make the colonists pay for the army. In 1767, Townshend persuaded Parliament to pass the Townshend Acts. This act placed a duty, or tax, on certain good the colonies imported from Great Britain. Popular items include glass, paint, paper, and tea. The colonists were not happy with this. Once again, the colonists were not going to pay taxes that their assemblies had not voted on. Samuel Adams decided to write a letter arguing that the new duties violated the colonists’ rights as British citizens. The colonies agreed to boycotting British goods. A new leader named Lord North became head of the British government. He was good with numbers, and he saw that the Townshend duties were a big money loser. The British merchants were losing lot of money because of the boycott and the duties did not make up for that. North persuaded Parliament to take away all of the Townshend duties except for the tax on tea.

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The day the parliament repealed most of the Townshend duties a fight happened between soldiers and colonists and the fight resulted with ten injured and five dead. The Boston Massacre happened on march 5th, 1770 when a group of patriots cause a riot and provoke the British and proceed to shoot the patriots killing five people.

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The Tea Act was created by Lord North in order to keep the British East India Company. It was hurt by the American’s boycott of imported tea, and needed to sell 17 million pounds of tea in order avoid going bankrupt. The act lowered the cost of taxes on tea from this company, making it cheaper than any other source of it. In this way, it gave the company monopoly over tea sale in the colonies. The colonists, however, still would not buy tea from the company, seeing it as a way to trick them into buying British imported goods. Merchants were nervous as to if the British would do this to other goods, building tension. The tea was shipped to the colonies in Boston, but little did anyone know that there were Patriots plotting against them......

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Patriots threw crates of tea into the Boston Harbor in protest of the taxes that were put on it. Afterwards, the Boston Harbor was closed.

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After lots of tension continuously built up and conflict was omnipresent between the colonies and Britain, they decided to take complete control. To do this they first closed the port at Boston and would not open it until the tea from the tea party was paid for, Next, they took control on Massachusetts leaving them with no freedom in government. However, the colonists had another plan. They refused to give in to the British and instead came together allying against the British. At first they searched for a way to settle the disputes peacefully but later resulted in violence.

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The First Continental Congress was a meeting of representatives from each colony, with the goal of deciding how to respond to the Intolerable Acts. They decided to send a letter of protest to King George and start a new boycott. They also planned to meet the next year, if things didn't get any better.

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The Battles of Lexington and Concord (1775)

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The Battles of Lexington and Concord (1775)

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The battles of Lexington and Concord were the first shots fired in the Revolutionary War. The battles occurred because a large contingent of British soldiers were marching to Concord to seize arms held by the Rebels there not unlike the earlier British seizure of arms in Boston. However the colonists were warned by Paul Revere earlier in the day and assembled to meet them. When the British entered Lexington Green they were met by a contingent of ~80 militia assembled under Capt. John Parker. When the british advanced with bayonets fixed to take the arms from the colonists a shot rang out of nowhere and the battle begun. The battle was an easy victory for the british regulars who sent the Rebels scattering with an unconfirmed number of dead. When the british marched to Concord to seize arms the rebels assembled under Major Butrick to greet them. The british after finding muskets preceded to bun them in the town square, but the colonists thought they were trying to burn the town. The british commander decided to send a small contingent to watch them on the North Bridge. The colonists angered by the burning decided to confront them. When the British tried to destroy the bridge the colonists fired and drove them back. This created mass panic in the British ranks who fled back to Boston with an army of 20,000 colonists biting at their heels.

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The Battles of Lexington and Concord (1775)

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The Battles of Lexington and Concord (1775)

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The battles of Lexington and Concord were the first shots fired in the Revolutionary War. The battles occurred because a large contingent of British soldiers were marching to Concord to seize arms held by the Rebels there not unlike the earlier British seizure of arms in Boston. However the colonists were warned by Paul Revere earlier in the day and assembled to meet them. When the British entered Lexington Green they were met by a contingent of ~80 militia assembled under Capt. John Parker. When the british advanced with bayonets fixed to take the arms from the colonists a shot rang out of nowhere and the battle begun. The battle was an easy victory for the british regulars who sent the Rebels scattering with an unconfirmed number of dead. When the british marched to Concord to seize arms the rebels assembled under Major Butrick to greet them. The british after finding muskets preceded to bun them in the town square, but the colonists thought they were trying to burn the town. The british commander decided to send a small contingent to watch them on the North Bridge. The colonists angered by the burning decided to confront them. When the British tried to destroy the bridge the colonists fired and drove them back. This created mass panic in the British ranks who fled back to Boston with an army of 20,000 colonists biting at their heels.