To many in the Continental Congress, war was unthinkable. So why did they finally create this revolutionary document?

In 1773, a group of colonists protested 13 years of increasing British oppression by attacking merchant ships in Boston Harbor.

Learn the basics about the Townshend Acts, a series of laws that intensified colonial rage toward the British crown in the 1760s.

The Tea Act of 1773, an act of Great Britain's Parliament, was the catalyst for some of the most important moments of the lead-up to the Revolutionary War.