Road to the Revolution

Taxes 1

100

This 1764 act taxed sugar and allowed officials to seize and sell cargo

Sugar Act

200

This act taxed newspapers, pamphlets, and legal documents, angering colonists

Stamp Act

300

Charles Townshend called for new taxes. This act later became known as? 

Townshend Act

400

This tax was meant to help the British East India Company by making tea cheaper.

The Tea Act

500

This act placed limits on how much sugar and molasses colonists could buy in 1733

Molasses Act

Colonial Resistance

100

This group, led by Samuel Adams, protested British taxes and fought for liberty

Sons of Liberty

200

This group of women boycotted British goods and held spinning bees

Daughters of Liberty

300

Patrick Henry was accused of this crime for arguing that only Virginia could tax Virginians.

Treason

400

Colonists in Boston agreed to do this as a way to protest the Townshend Acts

Boycott British goods 

500

Samuel Adams helped create this group to help colonies communicate about political events.

Committees of Correspondence 

British Punishment

100

This act forced colonists to provide food and shelter for British soldiers

Quartering Act

200

After the Boston Tea Party, the British passed these harsh laws as punishment.

Intolerable Acts / Coercive Act

300

The Intolerable Acts closed this major harbor until the colonists paid for the destroyed tea

Boston Harbor

400

Under the Sugar Act, colonists accused of breaking the law were denied this legal right.

Trial by jury / fair trial

500

This law allowed British officials to search colonists’ homes and ships for smuggled goods.

Writs of Assistance

Major Events

100

British soldiers fired into a crowd in 1770, killing five colonists, in this event

Boston Massacre

200

Colonists, disguised as Mohawks, dumped tea into the harbor during this event.

Boston Tea Party

300

Young boys threw snowballs at British troops and called them this nickname.

Lobsters

400

This African American man was one of the first to die in the Boston Massacre.

Crispus Attucks

500

Colonists in Boston met outside this location on the night of March 5-6 1773

Customs House

British Control vs. Colonial Rights

100

The first time British troops entered a colonial city to control the people was in this year.

1768

200

The First Continental Congress sent what to King George III

A petition 

300

The British repealed most Townshend Act taxes but kept a tax on this item

Tea

400

This member of the Sons of Liberty wrote newspaper articles against the Stamp Act.

Samuel Adams

500

This British king supported the Intolerable Acts as punishment for the Boston Tea Party.

King George III