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American revolution - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Stamp Act (1765)
        The Parliament of Great Britain imposed a direct tax on the colonies of British America. Stamp became mandatory on legal documents, magazines, playing cards, newspapers, and many
        other paper used throughout the colonies.
        
        Boston Massacre(1770)
        
        BOSTON TEA PARTY(1773) On December 16, 1773 the Sons of Liberty, were led by Samuel Adams, dressed up as Mohawk Indians and headed to the Boston Harbor.(Gabriel)
        
        INTOLERABLE ACTS(1774)
        Due to Massachusetts’ constant resistance to parliamentary rule and as punishment for the Boston Tea Party, the King and his Parliament passed a series of laws to limit political and geographical freedoms. These laws were called the Coercive Acts or Intolerable Acts.(Gabriel)
        
        FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS (1774)
        • Representatives from colonies meet in Philadelphia to discuss their rights.
        • Congress voted to cut off colonial trade with Great Britain until Parliament abolished the Intolerable Acts.(Gabriel)
        
        BATTLE OF LEXINGTON AND
        CONCORD(1774)
        • The British soldiers marched out of Boston to seize the colonists’ gunpowder and firearms in Concord, Massachusetts.
        • Paul Revere helped alert the Minutemen that the British were on the move by hanging lanterns in the church steeple. He also rode through the town to warn that, “The British are coming!”(Gabriel)
        
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        The Boston Massacre occurred on March 5, 1770.
        
        • A squad of British soldiers, come to support a sentry who was being pressed by a heckling,
        
        snowballing crowd, let loose a volley of shots.
  - - - Townshend Act (1767)
        
        In 1767, The English Parliament passed the Townshend
        
        Revenue Acts, imposing a new series of taxes on the
        
        colonists to pay for the costs of administering and
        
        protecting the American colonies. Items taxed included
        
        imports such as paper, tea, glass, lead and paints.
      - -Act was taxed on sugar, wine, molasses and coffee.
        -Tax on molasses almost stopped the rum trade from New England, and the colonies there protested.
        
        It put a three-cent tax on foreign refined sugar and increased taxes on coffee, indigo, and certain kinds of wine.