1. American Revolution

2. Stamp Act March 1765 Prime Minister George Grenville Tax on all products using paper (newspapers, books, playing cards, legal documents…even dice!) Tax used to pay for debts from French & Indian War, other wars in Europe

3. Townshend Acts Adopted in 1767 under Charles Townshend Tax on glass, lead, paint, and paper imported from Britain Also a tax on tea!!! Boycotts and protests abound

4. American Response to Taxes “No taxation without representation!” Protests lead British to station 4,000 troops in Boston (1 troop:4 Bostonians) March 5, 1770  Fight between soldiers & colonists for jobs  That evening, colonists return to taunt soldiers  Insults hurled, snowballs thrown  Soldiers fire into crowd, 5 colonists killed

5. American Response to Taxes Tea boycott threatens British East India Company in 1773 P.M. Lord North allows BEI Co. to sell tea tax- free Colonial merchants cut out of tea market Group of colonists dress as Mohawk Indians to get aboard 3 ships loaded with tea, dump it into Boston Harbor Dubbed Boston Tea Party

6. Intolerable Acts King George has Parliament pass in 1774 Shuts down Boston Harbor Declares martial law in Boston Suspends Massachusetts legislature

7. Colonists’ get organized First Continental Congress  Declaration of colonists’ rights  Protest Intolerable Acts  Leads to start of Revolutionary War (battles at Lexington & Concord) Second Continental Congress  Olive Branch Petition  Thomas Paine’s Common Sense  Declaration of Independence