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The Boston Massacre is often represented as the inevitable start of a revolution, but in fact it initially prompted Lord North's government to withdraw.

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The Boston Tea Party. The Tea Act, passed by the House of Commons on April 27, 1773, was regarded in America as a strategy to induce the colonists.

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The French and Indian War was a theater of the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French, each side being supported by various Native American tribes

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Having repudiated its own currency and no power of taxation, Congress did not have an independent source of revenue to pay off its domestic and foreign debts.

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Stamp Act 1765. This was an Act passed by Great Britain imposing a direct tax on the American Colonies and also required many materials to be printed on

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Americans felt they deserved all the rights of Englishmen. The British, on the other hand, thought that the colonies were created to be used in ways that best fit.

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The Townshend Acts or Townshend Duties were a series of British acts of Parliament passed during 1767 and 1768 introducing a series of taxes and regulations to enable administration of the British colonies in America. They are named after the Chancellor of the Exchequer who proposed the programme.

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British Response When news of the Boston Tea Party reached England, British general Thomas Gage was on leave from his North American post.

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The First Continental Congress. Many Americans viewed all of this as a blatant abuse of power by the British government

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Taxes. To raise money, Britain forced the colonies to pay new taxes. In 1765 the British lawmakers, called Parliament, passed a law called the Stamp Act .

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The charter was revoked in 1684, and two years later all the New England colonies were united into the Dominion of New England. A new charter was issued in 1691 that joined the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Plymouth Colony, and the Maine Colony as the Province of Massachusetts Bay and placed it under a royal governor.

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Royal officials accused of crimes were sent to Britain for trial.

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Royal officials accused of crimes were sent to Britain for trial.

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The Administration of Justice Act allowed the royal governor to order trials of accused royal officials to take place in Great Britain or elsewhere within the Empire if he decided that the defendant could not get a fair trial in Massachusetts.

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Royal officials accused of crimes were sent to Britain for trial.