Revolutionary war

• The Boston Tea Party occurred on December 16, 1773.
• the sugar act taxed sugar and was an indirect tax
• the stamp act required legal documents to carry a stamp showing it was paid; this was a direct tax
• the quartering act required colonists to house and feed British soldiers
• the tea act required colonists to buy British tea which resulted in the Boston tea party
• the Townshend acts placed a tax on glass, paper, paint, and tea
• the intolerable acts were the result of the quartering act
• patriots liked America more
• loyalists liked Britain more
• Mailman that got info for the other colonies were the committees of correspondences
• a society that was to protest against British policies which was called sons of liberty
• a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine was called commen sense
• the Declaration of Independence listed all rights to men; signed in 1776