| A | B | 
| A tax on imported goods such as sugar and molasses | Sugar act 1764 | 
| A tax issued by the British on advertisements, diplomas, legal documents, newspapers and playing cards | Stamp Act 1765 | 
| Taxes on common household items such as tea lead and glass | Townshend Acts 1767 | 
| British troops were fed and housed by the colonists against the colonist's will it was a law | Quartering act (1765) | 
| A violent revolt between the colonists and British Troops. It was the fault of the colonists. | Boston Massacre(1770) | 
| When representatives from the colonies met in Philadelphia to discuss their grievances and consider their options in dealing with the British | First Continental Congress (1774) | 
| A meeting that took place in Philadelphia with the idea of declaring independence from Britain and estalishing a continental army | Second Continental Contress (1775) | 
| This act extended Quebec's boundary south to the Ohio river overriding the claims of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Virginia to the disputed western lands | Queb Act (1774) | 
| The law that excused the company from paying duties and sell tea directly to American Agents | Tea Act (1773) | 
| Laws passsed by the British to punish the colonists because of the Boston Tea Party | INtolerable Acts (1774) | 
| Colonists dumped tea into the Boston harbor in protest of British taxes | Boston Tea Party ( 1773) | 
| General Gauge decided to seize rebel millitary supplies stored in Concord. Colonists had watchmen set up Paul Revere and others alerted the colonist housholds. " The British are coming" WHen the two sides met the shot heard arond the world took place | Battle of Lexington and Concord (1775) |