The British began to push out laws that the colonists of America were getting angry at. Everything wasn't going so well and the major events coming from this were catastrophic to the colonist's view of their former leader.
Starting in 1768, the customs officers began noting that the colonist's were angsty and informed the King about such behaviour. Tensions rose when England sent regiments of Redcoats into America which lead to a flurry of anger and chaos. First of these benevolent acts, was the Boston Massacre on March 5th, 1770. This event was used against the British when Sam Adams and Paul Revere made propaganda posters and convinced most of America to start boycotting British imported goods.
British retaliated with the Tea Act in 1773 which put more of the colonists in a stir. The Sons of Liberty acted against them by throwing all the tea out of the harbour in the Boston Tea Party in December, 1773.
More acts followed, the Coercive Acts and the Quebec Acts which pushed the Americans over the edge. They began referring to them as the Intolerable Acts and it was very annoying to them. Most of them were committed to rebellion at this point, and the war was just months from starting!!!
