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Digital History
Digital History: Problems England Faced After the French and Indian War [Pdf]
This offers a good overview of the problems England needed to deal with after signing the Treaty of Paris in 1763, ending the French and Indian War. What to do about the new lands they controlled, how to deal with their loss of income...
OpenStax
Open Stax: The Stamp Act and the Sons and Daughters of Liberty
From a chapter on "Imperial Reforms and Colonial Protests", this section explains the purpose of the 1765 Stamp Act and looks at the colonial responses to it.
University of Groningen
American History: Essays: The Intolerable Acts
This resource gives a comprehensive account of the Intolerable Acts, why they were passed, colonists' reactions, and particulars surrounding the Massachusetts Government Act and other Coercive Acts with text links and references.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: A New Colonial System
Although some believe that the history of the American Revolution began long before the first shots were fired in 1775, England and America did not begin an overt parting of the ways until 1763, more than a century and a half after the...
Digital History
Digital History: The Road to Revolution
A review of the Age of Revolution, particularly as it was perceived in the American colonies. See how the various actions taken by the British government to control the colonists resulted in uniting the colonists and set the stage for...
Other
Worchester Polytechnic Institute: The Intolerable or Coercive Acts
A brief listing and description of the Acts of the British Parliament that were to be known as the Coercive Acts by Parliament and the Intolerable Acts by the Colonists.
University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina: Causes of the American Revolution [Pdf]
Goes through the various events that led up to the American Revolution and the actions and responses of the British and the Colonies.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: The Intolerable Acts
Find the response by the British Parliament to the dumping of tea into Boston Harbor. So many laws were enacted that the colonists lumped them together and called them the Intolerable Acts.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: The Intolerable Acts
Details explaining what the Intolerable Acts were, as well as providing the full text of each act passed by the British Parliament in 1774.
Other
America's Homepage: The Quartering Act of 1765
Read the full text of The Quartering Act of the British Parliament in 1765, which required colonists to provide food and shelter for soldiers.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: The Stamp Act Controversy
Read about why the Stamp Act caused such controversy in the colonies. The British Parliament had imposed several taxes previously, but find out why this one, in particular, struck such a chord.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: Outline of American History Coercive Acts
This essay provides information about the First Continental Congress which was called as a result of the passage of the Coercive Acts.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Archiving Early America: Letters From a Pennsylvania Farmer
A voice of dissent prior to the American Revolution, John Dickenson, a Philadelphia lawyer, was active in protesting British policies. His writings, entitled Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer, were published in newspapers in 1767 and 1768.