2. Stamp Act -Parliament passes Stamp Act -placed a direct tax on the colonists -required stamp on all legal documents, newspapers, license, and cards -affected many colonists rich and poor -Quartering Act, 1765

3. Stamp Act -Parliament passes Stamp Act -placed a direct tax on the colonists -required stamp on all legal documents, newspapers, license, and cards -affected many colonists rich and poor -Quartering Act, 1765

4. Resistance Begins -Sons of Liberty Boston Samuel Adams John Adams -no taxation w/o representation -protests and boycotts were organized -stamp agents were harassed -law eventually repealed -Declaratory Act– states that Parliament has the right to declare laws for British colonies

5. Resistance Begins -Sons of Liberty Boston Samuel Adams John Adams -no taxation w/o representation -protests and boycotts were organized -stamp agents were harassed -law eventually repealed -Declaratory Act– states that Parliament has the right to declare laws for British colonies

6. Resistance Begins -Sons of Liberty Boston Samuel Adams John Adams -no taxation w/o representation -protests and boycotts were organized -stamp agents were harassed -law eventually repealed -Declaratory Act– states that Parliament has the right to declare laws for British colonies

7. Townshend Acts -new tax placed on imports such as tea, glass, paper, paint -colonists again reacted with protests -British reacted by sending more troops

8. Boston Massacre -March 1770 -protests by colonists -British troops fire on crowd -5 colonists killed Crispus Attucks -Most soldiers found not guilty John Adams served as attorney for the soldiers

9. Boston Tea Party -tax on tea still remain in effect -monopoly on tea given to British company -Dec. 1773 colonists raided Boston harbor and threw the tea overboard and burned the ships

10. Intolerable Acts -Parliament passes Coercive Acts in reaction -Colonist call it the Intolerable Acts -closed Boston Harbor -suspended basic civil rights -housed troops in peoples’ homes -Committees of Correspondence