What events were most important in causing the american revolution

Boston Tea Party

A raid on three British ships in Boston Harbor in which Boston colonists, disguised as Mohawk Indians, threw several hundred chests of tea into the harbor as a protest against the British Tea Act.

Stamp Act

A tax that the British Pariliament placed on newspapers and official documents sold in the American Colonies.

Boston Massacre

British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists who were teasing and taunting them. Five colonists were killed. The colonists blamed the British and the Sons of Liberty and used this incident as an excuse to promote the Revolution.