Fill in the Blanks Colonists Pre-Revolution angerOnline version SS8H3 events that led to the Revolutionary War by Aaron Stinson 1 stamp taxes Party England Massachusetts rebelled protest killing paper Parliament Tea French Massacre Intolerable Acts representation rebellious Act punish Stamp England began to impose , such as the in 1765 . Its purpose was to raise the money needed to pay for the and Indian War . It had been a very expensive war for . The Stamp Act required colonists to buy a government for almost every document . Colonists , saying that Parliament should not tax them when they had no in the English governing body . Early in the 1770s , two events in Boston showed that colonists were becoming . In the 1770 Boston , British soldiers fired into an angry mob that had been taunting them , five men . In the 1773 Boston , colonists dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to a tax on tea . Things were heating up ! England was not pleased with the rebellious colonists . In 1774 , passed a series of laws called Coercive Acts the colony of and set an example for the other colonies . Americans called these laws the .
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