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The Stamp Act was a law passed after the Seven Years War to help Britain pay for the expenses they accumulated during wartime. It implemented taxes on transactions within the colonies, which colonists weren't used to, since they had self-governed and decided their own taxes up until this time.

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The Townshend Acts were laws passed to put taxes on goods imported to America from Britain. The response to this was a boycott on British goods and harassment of British customs officers. The British responded to that by putting British troops in America to try and demotivate the angry colonists.

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The Boston Massacre was an event that occurred in December of 1770. Though there are many different accounts of the incident, what's known is that a disagreement between British officers and colonists turned deadly when the officers fired into the crowd, killing three men and injuring two others.

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Often seen as the final tipping point in the tensions between British authorities and colonists, the Boston Tea Party was a mass protest against the Tea Act, a law reinforcing the taxes on tea, when other products previously taxed had their taxes removed. A radical group of protesters disguised as Mohawks boarded three ships on the Boston harbor and dumped more than 92,000 pounds of tea into the ocean.

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In response to the Boston Tea Party, British officials passed laws known as the Coercive Acts, which included closing Boston harbor until reparations were paid for the lost tea, appointing a British council where there once was a self-governed one, forbidding town meetings without approval, and giving a British general known as Thomas Gage sweeping powers. Among these acts, however, was the Quartering Act, which gave British officers full rights to house in colonists' homes.

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General Thomas Gage, who was previously given sweeping power from the Coercive Acts, led British troops into Lexington with the intent to capture revolutionists John Hancock and Sam Adams, then venture to Concord to take their gunpowder, effectively quelling revolution. However, American spies learned of the plan, and were able to successfully inform others of the pending attack, leading to the Battle of Lexington. Casualties included seven Americans and seventy-three British soldiers (along with twenty-six others MIA.)

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(1775-1776) British Attacks on Coastal Towns

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(1775-1776) British Attacks on Coastal Towns

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British forces bombed & burned Falmouth, Massachusetts, and Norfolk, Virginia in a brutal attack that proved to colonists that they must join together to combat their common enemy and free themselves from British rule. It sent a message to the southern colonies, who were originally skeptical, that all colonies needed to take down the British. This ultimately led to the American victory in the American Revolution.