Section 1

The Stramp Act

- Stamp Act 1765

- printed items

- wills and Newspaper

- Colonially protested the lack of representation

- Merchants in New York, Boston, Philadelphia withdraw from commercial relationship with Britain

- Parliament repealed Stamp Act on 1766.

- Passed Declaratory Act

- 1767 Townshend Acts was a Tax Import from Britain on lead glass, paper, paint and tea.

- Samuel Adams founder of the sons of liberty and lead the new boycott.

2. Tension Mounts in Massachusetts

b. Boston Massacre - British guards fire on a colonial mob on 1770 five people were killed.

- Lord Frederick North was prime minister, had most of the Townshend Acts repealed

- Tea Act 1773

- lets British East avoid tax

- Boston Tea Party Boston rebels dump 18,000 pounds of tea into Boston harbor

- Intolerable Acts 1774 closed Boston Harbor. Boston was placed on martial law

- Quartering Act 1774 colonist housed british soldiers.

Colonial Resistance and Rebellion