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1765: Parliament unanimously passed the Declaratory Act, asserting its right to make laws governing the colonists.
1765: Parliament approved the Quartering Act, requiring colonial governments toput up British soldiers in unoccupied buildings and provide them with candles, bedding, and beverages. When the New York Assembly resists, the British governor suspended the assembly for six months.1767: Chancellor of the Exchequer, Charles Townshend, imposed new duties on imports of glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea to the colonies. The Townshend Acts also expanded the customs service. Revenuefrom the acts paid the salaries of colonial governors and judges and prevented colonial legislatures from exercising the power of the purse over these officials.
1770: British soldiers under CaptainThomas Preston fired on a Boston crowd, killing five and wounding six. In a subsequent trial, in which John Adams defended the soldiers, all but two of the soldiers were acquitted of murder.
Afterdiscovering that the Townshend duties have raised only 21,000 pound sterling (while sales of British goods in the colonies have fallen more than 700,000 pounds), the British government repealed allthe Townshend duties, except the duty on tea, to remind the colonists of Parliament's power to tax.
1773: Parliament passed the Tea Act that authorized the East India Company to bypass Americanwholesalers and sell tea directly to American distributors. Cutting out the wholesalers' profit would make English tea cheaper than tea smuggled in from Holland.
Colonists in Boston, disguised as Indians,boarded three vessels and dumped 342 canisters of British tea into Boston harbor.
The British government responded harshly; it closed Boston harbor to trade; modified the Massachusetts colonialcharter; forbid town meetings more than once a year; called for the billeting of British troops in unoccupied private homes; provided for trials outside the colonies when royal officials are accused of...