Key Events

Tea Act of 1773: granted the British East India company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies

The Boston Tea Party: this was a political protest by the sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts on the night of December 16, 1773. Samuel Adams and the sons of Liberty boarded 3 ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard.

The Boston Massacre: this was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers shot and killed several people while under attack by a mob.

The Stamp Act 1765: was passed on March 22, 1765, which lead to an uproar in the colonies over an issue that was to be a major cause of the revolution.

Battles of Lexington and Concord: were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.

The Intolerable Acts: was series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party.